Maxwell’s Equations celebrating 150 years.
Or let there be light!
From Nature:
These communal consequences of a grand discovery might arise in any scientific discipline. But Maxwell’s equations are particularly characteristic of physics in the way in which they unified previously disparate laws and provided a foundational framework for vast industries — both academic and commercial.
From Nature:
Physicists can rejoice in a historical moment of great insight, can share in the expressions of that insight that only they can understand in any depth, can bond over surviving the didactic stress that many students experience in learning to apply them and, above all, can roam freely in deploying the power thus provided for understanding the world and, on occasion, changing it.
These communal consequences of a grand discovery might arise in any scientific discipline. But Maxwell’s equations are particularly characteristic of physics in the way in which they unified previously disparate laws and provided a foundational framework for vast industries — both academic and commercial.
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