Physics Web article: "James Clerk Maxwell: a force for physics"

[David Casseres]

Thanx for that.  I've been reading Maxwell's 1865 paper (skimming the
math) and it confirms my long-held opinion that he's the greatest of
the 19th century physicists and the most underrated.

It was Maxwell who first wrote the equations that said the speed of
light was absolute.  A generation of scientists then tried to explain
that away as a mathematical artefact, until Einstein saw that the
reasoning was absolutely airtight and founded his Special Relativity
on it.

It's nice to read this article and learn how much more science Maxwell
discovered, besides his famous Equations.

On 12/4/06, pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com> wrote:
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