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Within a few years, James Clerk Maxwell transforms Faraday’s visionary insight into a system of equations describing the fields. He grasps that light is nothing but a swift ripple upon these webs, and that these ripples, at greater wavelengths, can bear signals. Hertz reproduces them in the laboratory,
Carlo Rovelli • Anaximander: And the Birth of Science
“Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are … part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.” — Max Planck (1858–1947), physicist
Gregg Braden • The Divine Matrix: Bridging Time, Space, Miracles and Belief
Einstein invented everything he was ever going to invent by the age of 25. The rest of his life was spent in a futile chase to find a force he couldn’t find called the Fifth Force—the unifying force.
Stuart Wilde • Infinite Self: 33 Steps to Reclaiming Your Inner Power
Since the day Isaac Newton laid down his laws, a number of other kinds of laws have been suggested for fundamental physical systems. James Clerk Maxwell wrote down a set of equations for electricity and magnetism; Albert Einstein proposed an equation for the curvature of spacetime; Erwin Schrödinger suggested an equation for the wave function of a
... See moreSean M. Carroll • The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion
As we have seen, Maxwell’s equations predicted that the speed of light should be the same whatever the speed of the source, and this has been confirmed by accurate measurements. It follows from this that if a pulse of light is emitted at a particular time at a particular point in space, then as time goes on it will spread out as a sphere of light w
... See moreStephen Hawking • A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes
The Einstein Theory of Relativity
