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I'm trying to understand how Maxwell came up with this famous equations - a…
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Maxwell's original paper is free on Wikisource:โ€ข James Clerk Maxwell, On …
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@Dyoung @bstacey - where did you read that? If it were true it would be very i…
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@Dyoung - I'm mildly relieved because I felt sure that the one really NEW t…
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@johncarlosbaez May your extended stay in Edinburgh lead you to the discovery o…
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@quatrezoneilles - thanks very much! I worked for a while in Maxwell's ch…
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@johncarlosbaez I'm staggered that he managed to get his em equations out o…
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@johncarlosbaez @bstacey In the end, this is not the same method as those used …
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@ak - the crown jewel of Maxwell's equations is the term he came up with hi…
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@johncarlosbaez @bstacey Are the ray of lights used by Newton less stupid?
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@RobJLow - To lessen the amazement slightly: all but one of the terms in Maxwel…
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@fl - it's very similar to that limiting method, but he's also using *m…
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@johncarlosbaez @bstacey Interestingly McCullagh took a much more modern approa…
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@Luke_Drury @bstacey - Very interesting! McCullagh was too far ahead of this t…
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@fl @bstacey - I don't think Newton or Maxwell were stupid... but it can fr…
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@johncarlosbaez Speaking of that beast, did you read Stanislaw Lem's Demon …
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@quatrezoneilles - hmm, I once tried to read everything by Lem that's been …
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@johncarlosbaez @bstacey Wel!! "stupid". I don't want to be misun…
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@johncarlosbaez @bstacey does it look like he's explaining his intuition or…
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@Colman - it looks like he's trying to invent a mechanical model of the kno…
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@johncarlosbaez @bstacey I'm guessing this isn't really a mechanical mo…
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@johncarlosbaez @bstacey @highergeometer There's a nice footnote in https:/…
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@Luke_Drury - thanks, that sounds like a paper I'd be very interested in!A …
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@dpiponi - it's a good question. You can look at his paper and see what yo…
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@johncarlosbaez @bstacey He's saying pretty clearly it's just intuition…
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@dpiponi - Yeah! This model is in the paper where he first wrote down all of M…
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@johncarlosbaez @highergeometer @bstacey There may also be a link to Hamilton&…
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@Luke_Drury - yes, in the paper where Maxwell invented the terms "curl&quo…
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@johncarlosbaez I hereby propose a collaboration to visualize these mechanical …
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@dpiponi @johncarlosbaez @bstacey What do you make of his explicit mention of m…
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@dougmerritt - One thing I want to understand is how Maxwell and Boltzmann came…
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@j_bertolotti - I'd like that! Siegel's paper gives a pretty detailed…
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@johncarlosbaez @bstacey Presumably at this point in time Maxwell's equatio…
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@johncarlosbaez @dpiponi @bstacey You make me curious about the background of t…
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@dpiponi - great! @j_bertolotti has suggested - perhaps just kidding - that we…
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@johncarlosbaez @ak This stuff is fascinating. Thanks for sharing.Itโ€™s amazin…
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@troy_s - yes, "the mind is a computer". ๐Ÿ˜ข
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@johncarlosbaez @dpiponi @bstacey From that passage, it sounds like he's sa…
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@mattmcirvin - I believe those particles represent the electric field, or more …
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@EricCarroll - Nice metaphor! Yes, that old stuff is left at the bottom of the…
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@johncarlosbaez @ak In modern introductory physics classes, like the one I TA&#…
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@johncarlosbaez @dpiponi @bstacey But they also seem to be able to break free f…
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@johncarlosbaez Have long train trip tomorrow. Will try to read the article an…
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@mattmcirvin - I think you'd like Daniel Siegel's discussion comparing …
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@johncarlosbaez @ak I think the "usual modern story" got burned into …
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@j_bertolotti - great!
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@johncarlosbaez @bstacey Darrigol (2003: Electrodynamics from Ampere to Einstei…
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@NickPizzoOceans @bstacey - thanks! I will look at that book
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@johncarlosbaez @quatrezoneilles I remember thinking this story was a fable abo…
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@johncarlosbaez @bstacey As for the mechanical model, today if you are introduc…
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@soaproot - you're tempting me to say a lot about quantum field theory, but…
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@johncarlosbaez Cool thread!Here is my attempt to explain Maxwellโ€™s model.Fig…
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@johncarlosbaez An animation of how this creates waves, in this case standing w…
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@faelif @GerardWestendorp - I hope @j_bertolotti looks at these animations, in …
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@johncarlosbaez I should mention that if the ball bearings are allowed to move,…
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@GerardWestendorp wrote: "if the ball bearings are allowed to move, we get…
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@dpiponi - now I'm reading Daniel Siegel's book "Innovation in Max…
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@johncarlosbaez @bstacey Shades of Kelvin's vortex theory maybe.
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@johncarlosbaez Well, the \(\frac{\partial E}{\partial t}\) is caused by infini…
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