Father of Modern Physics: James Clerk Maxwell
The History Guy recalls the life of Scottish Scientist James Clerk Maxwell, whom astronomer Carl Sagan said “has done more to shape our civilization than any ten recent presidents and prime ministers.”
This video was done in collaboration with the channel Arvin Ash: Complex Questions Explained Simply.
Check out Arvin’s take on Maxwell’s equations here: https://youtu.be/FSEJ4YLXtt8 James Clerk Maxwell’s name is not as well known as Newton or Einstein, yet his discoveries were transformative.
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JDHuffman
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Maxwell equations have applications to everything in our daily life. The equations even relate to solar energy, and establish the way solar flux can, and can not, be handled mathematically.
Back-radiation does NOT simply add to solar. Climate clowns do not understand electromagnetic waves, and cannot learn. That’s why they are clowns.
Nothing new.
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Joseph Olson
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In my Physics, Electricity & Magnetism class, and my Engineering, Electronic Systems class, we learned about alternating current, polyphase transmission, induction motors, radio broadcast and receiving. Never once was the inventor of these modern miracles mentioned. Nicola Tesla had all of these inventions stolen by Rockefeller, and marketed by the front men Edison and Marconi.
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Herb Rose
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Hi Joseph,
It was J.P. organ who stole Tesla’s work. Morgan made it so Westinghouse couldn’t get funding to develop AC.over his Edison Electric DC system even though it was superior. Tesla gave up his patents and royalty agreements with Westinghouse to allow him to develop the system. Morgan then threatened to bankrupt Westinghouse by using the court system challenging the patents unless Westinghouse gave him the patents. He then fired Thomas Edison and renamed the company General Electric. Morgan made Rockefeller look like a saint, which was not an easy thing to do.
Herb
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Scarecrow
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Heaviside equations, you mean. To be clear.
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Piet De Pauw
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I refer to”James Clerk Maxwell’s name is not as well known as Newton or Einstein, yet his discoveries were transformative.”. I disagree. The discoveries were made by Faraday. Faraday did the experiments. Despite the fact he was obstructed by his boss. Faraday was a self made man, had to pull himself out of poverty, and had no mathematical education. His obstruction from his supervisor Davy at the Royal Societ was a tragedy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxwVIOHEG4I Maxwell had wealthy parents, and had an excellent education. He was bright in mathematics, and after reading the books of Faraday, where Faraday described all his experiments, he simply summarized the experimental results of Faraday in four mathematical formulas, known as the laws of Faraday. i.e. Faraday played the main role.
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JDHuffman
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Faraday was a genius, but he only contributed one equation to Maxwell’s 4 equations, Faraday’s Law. Gauss and Ampere provided the other three.
Maxwell realized how they all fit together, and how electromagnetic energy describes light.
All 4 men were great scientists. It’s hard to say one was any greater than the other. Maxwell was the younger one and built on the developments and achievements of the older ones. That’s how science advances.
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Anonymous Scientist
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Maxwell didn’t have the insight of the brilliant 19th century physicist Josef Loschmidt who was the first to make a realistic estimate of the size of air molecules and then to explain the gravito-thermal effect. Loschmidt is easily proven correct based on the Second Law of Thermodynamics and data on Earth and other planets, and thus the radiative forcing greenhouse conjecture is false because the two hypotheses are obviously mutually exclusive. Loschmidt’s work has been proven correct and then extended to explain the necessary heat in the 2013 paper “Planetary Core and Surface Temperatures” that will one day be world-shattering as it contains the ONLY correct explanation of such temperatures and the heat transfers involved. PSI people need to come to grips with this because the direct solar radiation to the surface cannot explain the mean temperature by a long shot: it would have to be about three times as much.
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