A (very) Brief History of James Clerk Maxwell

[@helorumtheknightsofmambrin2155]

When I taught Physics I was surprised how few people had heard of James Clerk Maxwell. He is that forgotten genius between Newton and Einstein.

[@alili945]

@Joker Crazy thats what op said

[@MrEnoBeano]

You taught physics? That’s awesome!

[@rsr789]

Einstein never forgot him: he always had to correct everyone that he stood on the shoulders of Maxwell, NOT Newton.

[@dq6115]

Exactly🤘👍

[@bmclaughlin01]

Einstein had two photos on his wall, Newton and Maxwell.

[@emilj726]

When I was Electrical Engineering student, Maxwell was all over the curriculum. My professor teaching Electromagnetics course mentioned the formulation of which we were studying Maxwell's equations were re-written by Oliver Heaviside. In the Electrical Engineering world Heaviside is appreciated, but I think in general physics and Mathematics he should be mentioned allot more because he did do great work in the field. Having said all that, doing a Heaviside video would be greatly appreciated. Keep up the good work!

[@JohnBerry-q1h]

It was Heaviside who realized that, for the undersea telegraphy cables, the equations that best describe such cables (electrically) need to include not only R (the resistance) and C (the capacitance), but also L (the inductance). For this, units of inductance should have been named after Heaviside. If it wasn't for the intelligent modifications that Heaviside contributed to the mathematics of electricity, I would imagine that, today, a lot more engineering students would flunk out of engineering schools.

[@michaelt.5672]

The fact that, effectively, ALL wireless technology, as well as most of modern physics can trace their origins primarily to the work of Maxwell and yet barely anyone knows about him is bordering on criminal.

[@professorboltzmann5709]

One of my personal intellectual heroes. I've learned so much from his life as a physicist.

[@windingsarcasm9046]

For those interested, Katherine would die 7 years later in December of 1886 at Cambridge. Not much is known about what she did in these 7 years.

[@asherwade]

Two addenda worth noting: (a) "Natural Philosophy" before cir. 1960 referred to the department of 'Physics' {I remember seeing such old plaques in royal blue trimmed in gold, at the Univ. of Edinburgh when I was there taking a Master's degree; 1971-74} and (b) his name: James 'Clerk' Maxwell; the name 'Clerk' in the UK is pronounced 'Clark' ~ though 'Clerk' may highly likely be the more correct pronunciation of the two, as the profession of being a 'clerk' is derived via Latin referring to the 'clergy'. Also, it is said that James Clerk Maxwell was the only portrait hanging on the walls of Einstein's walls in his study at home, in Princeton.

[@steminanusas5233]

My favourite scientist 🔥🔥❤️❤️

[@LarsOfMars.]

Wait, what... a film that actually recognises that Maxwell is Scottish?! Well now I have to subscribe, don't I... Scotland's contributions to the development of the modern world from the Enlightenment onward are quite, quite remarkable. Particularly so for such a small country. From architecture to economics to engineering and on to the fundamental nature of things, as well as every area inbetween. It's a truly fascinating occurrence worthy of study and largely overlooked due to the individuals involved generally being labelled British which most people equate to English. A rich seam of content awaits there for anyone looking to tell the stories. And a great job you've done with Maxwell here!

[@Valhalla88888]

The masses and uneducated may not know about the Scottish Enlightenment but the educated classes will certainly know and they will know them as Scots not English for sure❤

[@JohnBerry-q1h]

It's interesting to me to hear these stories about famous scientists and mathematicians who, when they were young, were left alone to go ahead and learn/study any smart topic of their choosing. When I was a kid, things didn't work like that. My father was from a dairy farming background, and was deathly against education. Although he also worked for my public school system (as a school bus driver), he was secretly always against the pursuit of an education. According to my Dad, because the public school is run by the state, public school, therefore, is just an attempt *on the part of the state* to tell all of us *what to do.* My father would then adamantly state... "The STATE does NOT tell us WHAT to DO!!" On the day before my very first homework assignment (which occurred at the beginning of the 5th grade), my father adamantly told me to NEVER have a book in my hand. To myself, I thought that he couldn't possibly be serious. So, the next evening, I came home with my textbooks, set them on the dining room table, and proceeded to attempt to do my very first homework assignment. Now, my dining room had a bow window, and when my father arrived home in his pick-up truck, he could readily see me, through the bow window, as he pulled into the driveway. He came running up the back kitchen steps, and on into the dining room. With the back of his arm, he immediately swept all of my textbooks off of the table, and onto the floor, while shouting... "I. TOLD. YOU. TO. *never* HAVE. A. BOOK. IN. YOUR. HANDS!!" As a result of all of this, I got dragged through all of my years in Public School as an underachieving idiot. I had to wait until I was old enough to pursue education independently (at community college) to finally start my first day of genuine education. That's how it was, out in the country, in the 1970s. As a kid, you couldn't contact Child Protective Services. Even if you tried, my father would say something like... "That's MY PHONE!! go get YOUR OWN *damn phone* !!"

[@williamwalker39]

Maxwell's equations were developed by many physicists who have their name on their equations: Gauss, Faraday, Ampere. Maxwell only added the displacement current to Ampere's law. But with this one final piece, Maxwell was able to show that EM fields propagate as a wave at approximately approxmately speed c. But the equations were not clearly stated as there are known today and involved 20 coupled equations, and this was later simplified by Heaviside who summarized the theory in 4 equations. But Maxwell incorrectly set the wave equation equal to zero, which is not valid when sources create light. Heaviside corrected this by setting the wave equation to a source and solving the resultant inhomogeneous partial differential equation. This revealed that the EM fields propagate non linearly in the nearfield and only approximately linearly in the farfield. Recently it was shown that the consequence is that speed of the fields are instantaneous in the nearfield and reduces to the speed of light in the farfield, about 1 wavelength from the source. This has recently been confirmed experimentally by several independent researchers. This corresponds the phase speed, group speed, and information speed. Any theory assuming the speed of light is a constant, such as Special Relativity and General Relativity are wrong, and it has implications to Quantum theories as well. So this fact about the speed of light affects all of Modern Physics. Often it is stated that Relativity has been verified by so many experiments, how can it be wrong. Well no experiment can prove a theory, and can only provide evidence that a theory is correct. But one experiment can absolutely disprove a theory, and the new speed of light experiments proving the speed of light is not a constant is such a proof. So what does it mean? Well a derivation of Relativity using instantaneous nearfield light yields Galilean Relativity. This can easily seen by inserting c=infinity into the Lorentz Transform, yielding the GalileanTransform, where time is the same in all inertial frames. So a moving object observed with instantaneous nearfield light will yield no Relativistic effects, whereas by changing the frequency of the light such that farfield light is used will observe Relativistic effects. But since time and space are real and independent of the frequency of light used to measure its effects, then one must conclude the effects of Relativity are just an optical illusion. Since General Relativity is based on Special Relativity, then it has the same problem. A better theory of Gravity is Gravitoelectromagnetism which assumes gravity can be mathematically described by 4 Maxwell equations, similar to to those of electromagnetic theory. It is well known that General Relativity reduces to Gravitoelectromagnetism for weak fields, which is all that we observe. Using this theory, analysis of an oscillating mass yields a wave equation set equal to a source term. Analysis of this equation shows that the phase speed, group speed, and information speed are instantaneous in the nearfield and reduce to the speed of light in the farfield. This theory then accounts for all the observed gravitational effects including instantaneous nearfield and the speed of light farfield. The main difference is that this theory is a field theory, and not a geometrical theory like General Relativity. Because it is a field theory, Gravity can be then be quantized as the Graviton. Lastly it should be mentioned that this research shows that the Pilot Wave interpretation of Quantum Mechanics can no longer be criticized for requiring instantaneous interaction of the pilot wave, thereby violating Relativity. It should also be noted that nearfield electromagnetic fields can be explained by quantum mechanics using the Pilot Wave interpretation of quantum mechanics and the Heisenberg uncertainty principle (HUP), where Δx and Δp are interpreted as averages, and not the uncertainty in the values as in other interpretations of quantum mechanics. So in HUP: Δx Δp = h, where Δp=mΔv, and m is an effective mass due to momentum, thus HUP becomes: Δx Δv = h/m. In the nearfield where the field is created, Δx=0, therefore Δv=infinity. In the farfield, HUP: Δx Δp = h, where p = h/λ. HUP then becomes: Δx h/λ = h, or Δx=λ. Also in the farfield HUP becomes: λmΔv=h, thus Δv=h/(mλ). Since p=h/λ, then Δv=p/m. Also since p=mc, then Δv=c. So in summary, in the nearfield Δv=infinity, and in the farfield Δv=c, where Δv is the average velocity of the photon according to Pilot Wave theory. Consequently the Pilot wave interpretation should become the preferred interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. It should also be noted that this argument can be applied to all fields, including the graviton. Hence all fields should exhibit instantaneous nearfield and speed c farfield behavior, and this can explain the non-local effects observed in quantum entangled particles. *KZbin presentation of above arguments: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qZazlX1tq7iErLM *More extensive paper for the above arguments: William D. Walker and Dag Stranneby, A New Interpretation of Relativity, 2023: vixra.org/abs/2309.0145 *Electromagnetic pulse experiment paper: www.techrxiv.org/doi/full/10.36227/techrxiv.170862178.82175798/v1 Dr. William Walker - PhD in physics from ETH Zurich, 1997

[@amanwhodoesntwanttoliveint9425]

Been a long time man brilliant videos!!

[@georgeisaya5762]

I love this insightful guy. The boast of modern physics is in the centrality of Maxwell's ingenuity. I salute him. He really redefined physics. I can vote him as one of the fathers of physics.

[@jontallen3319]

Very nice summary of a creative force in mathematics. I have been interested in her research for many years.

[@sebastiaogonzaga2672]

I noticed the thumbnail is a little bit diferent, is better now. Is good to see your content getting improved, even more by the fact is a valuable content.

[@coreyrosteutcher8429]

Love these videos. Thank you for doing what you do.

[@andrepenteado]

Thanks for your content my friend! Please don't stop! Cheers from Brazil.

[@stefanwebdev1803]

Your videos make me love math more and more , I always loved history but not so much math . Guess your channel is helping .

[@hassanmohammadi7870]

Very nice. Next time, about Adrien-Marie Legendre or Josiah Willard Gibbs ♥️

[@anarcho.pacifist]

Awesome channel! If you want, please do a video on Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (my favorite mathematician). And maybe also on Évariste Galois. Thanks!

[@Ron_Shvartsman]

Could you please make a brief history of my personal hero, George Polya? Thank you!!

[@Joe-un1tl]

Amazing Video, please do one on Joshia Willard Gibbs or Oliver Heaviside

[@amritpatel3794]

Einstein had Maxwell's Portrait in his office. That explain everything about this great mind, James Clark Maxwell.

[@azlan270]

Do Newton already!!!

[@123voorhees]

The photo of his cousin at 8:45 really looks like a filter you would have on phone lol

[@pal9876]

Lol

[@OlivierSuire]

Edinbraw, not Edinbowrow

[@anhthiensaigon]

Green next please :D

[@michaelgonzalez9058]

The air of a room is transformed into H2o and revolved into electricicyty

[@phengtongheng8021]

Why not Nicolas Tesla brother?

[@iamalive2826]

He even died consciously and calmly

[@JanPBtest]

I think "Clerk" is pronounced differently (one of those UK English traps).

[@Valhalla88888]

In Scotland it's pronounced as Clark❤

[@pal9876]

His birthday is on June 13 or July 13?

[@MrEnoBeano]

He had a terrible childhood but still turned out to do a lot of good.

[@knowitall6677]

Clerk is pronounced as Clark

[@MrEerwin]

Within a playful spirit of 'nitpicking', him is waay too smart, eloquent and generally intellectually delightful to not understand and demonstrate the different forms and uses of the pronoun 'he'. ...when in doubt, just add a verb after the form of 'he' in question and let your ear lead you to the correct word.

[@JohnBerry-q1h]

FOE•sigh (NOT *foke•eye* )

[@natepolidoro4565]

So he was dumb