Abstract All physical phenomena that occur in nature are related to one or another mutual effects. Electric and magnetic phenomena are of particular importance in order to gain extensive knowledge about the structure of the world around us. Electric and magnetic forces can be transmitted over a certain distance like gravitational forces. While the source of the gravitational field is mass, the source of the electromagnetic field is electric charge. The only reason for such a contradiction may be the discrepancy between the research methods used by science and the essence of the problem being studied. Historically, all research methods should be divided into methods before and after the advent of the computer era. It was the former that were at the disposal of researchers whose recommendations were used in the formation of the existing regulatory framework.