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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:โข 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.Itโs amazin… | |
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@troy_s - yes, "the mind is a computer". ๐ข | |
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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 Maxwellโs 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… |