James Clerk Maxwell - A Sense of Wonder - Documentary
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- Опубліковано 26 тра 2015
- 2015 marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of one of the greatest scientific papers of all time, in which James Clerk Maxwell described his transformative theory of electromagnetism. This 28-minute film celebrates his life, his poetry, his creative genius as a mathematician and scientist and his love of Galloway, told through the journey of poet and writer Rab Wilson and featuring conversations with contemporary scientists, music, poetry and songs.
This film was produced with support from the James Clerk Maxwell Foundation and the Dr David Summers Charitable Trust. Commissioned by Wigtown Festival Company.
One scientific epoch ended and another began with James Clerk Maxwell
- Albert Einstein
James Maxwell, one of the greatest physicist of all time, set possibly the most well known scientist (Albert Einstein) up in his work and is the base of his success. Though if you ask the general public as they have done at the start of the film, and you say, 'Who is James Clerk Maxwell?' If they are not consumed in the amazing subject of Science I guarantee they will reply 'Who?'. Anyway thanks to the 2% that read this and have a great day or night.
Einstein is reason we don't truly appreciate science... Einstein is a fraud.
One person looks at this video every 20 minutes for the last 7.5 years that's extra well deserved recognition Thank you for the video.
From a structural engineering perspective, Maxwell is my favorite innovator and physicist. His work involved in indeterminate structures and graphical methods to structures is probably the most overlooked thing.
Thanks for writing.
As a Scot I am glad to see James Clerk Maxwell getting the recognition that he deserves. Thank you for the video.🌱
Maxwell created our modern world , without him we would have virtually nothing you can see and touch right now in front of your eyes.
I am shocked that a lot of people in Scotland haven't heard of Maxwell. His laws were a revelation and his work had a profound influence on Einstein. Many of the discoveries that Michael Faraday made he couldn't explain and turned to Maxwell to come up with a theory that explained electro-magnetism. He explained how electro-magnetic waves propagated through the ether.
Good documentary!
Standards of education in Scotland are abysmal . Well done
Nicola...! !
@@2msvalkyrie529 ahahhaha don't be silly, this wouldn't be taught in any public school across the UK
Tesla and Maxwell amaze me
What they didn't say was Maxwell's electromagnetic theory wasn't widely accepted during his lifetime. He never lived to see his work fully proven experimentally. Such is often the case with such people that by their greatness are ahead of their time.
Maxwell was only 48 when he died. His treatise on electricity and magnetism was published six years before his death, although his work on the subject had been done a decade earlier. Hertz discovered radio waves seven years after Maxwell’s death. The tragedy is just that he died so young (48).
I love the fact that Maxwell was a Christian and a church elder himself
The guy on the street usually knows nothing of Maxwell, but everyone involved in physics knows of his amazing work.
Correct. Even Einstein always had to tell the lay person that he stood not on the shoulders of Newton, but on the shoulders of Maxwell.
Although general public does not know about Maxwell among the scientists as well as many branches of engineering the dude is quite well known and is considered a legend. Similar ones that are forgotten by the general population are Euler and Gauss - two legends of maths (and bit of physics).
I learned about Maxwell, and his four equations in words, when I got my electric train set when I was twelve. But then an electric train set had rails to connect together and a transformer to get the voltage of the electricity right, so I had a huge advantage over today's kids who just get toys with motors hidden away with batteries.
Yes, anyone who is into mathematics knows thet Euler and Gauss are giants in the field, but how many people are into mathematics?
Yes! Those guys are utter legends to be revered. Rightly so.
James Maxwell was definitely a genius, but people need to know is that Maxwell himself never wrote the famous Maxwell equations. Maxwell did most of the technical work, but it was Oliver Heaviside who simplified all the complicated mathematics, and derived the 4 equations that are known today as Maxwell's equations.
Yes. Intallly Maxwell had approx 17 equations. Heaviside simplified them down to their present for.
Heaviside was a genius and has not been given due credit for what he achieved.
Don't think he went to university and was largely self taught.
The four most beautiful equations of physics!
Giuseppe Vianello Einstein's General Relativity equation doesn't fall behind though lol.
Coughs in general relativity
@@maxwellsequation4887 ofcourse GTOR is OP.
But Maxwell's equation is beautiful wonder of science.
Another great British scientist that most people haven't heard of is Paul Dirac.
He was a revolutionary and his equations led to the discovery of anti-mattter which has led to practical technology like the PET scanner which detects Positrons, the anti-matter equivalent of electrons
Which is ironic, since his Nobel Prize was shared with Schrödinger, who is far more known (if only for his 'cat' thought experiment) today to the lay person.
Another feature of Maxwell's intellect is the lucidity of his thought which one can immediately see present in his writings. I guess this may be one of the defining characteristic of a genius.
The rhyming found in his writings are more pronounced in his teaching material which he prepared for his students. It was a unique way he used to facilitate learning by using the technique of rhyming. It is known he had noticed that his students had difficulty grasping the notions of physics. Oftentimes he was exasperated, so I believe, rhyming was his own unique way to facilitate his students' remember the material he taught. Today, this method would be considered within the purview of instructional modification of teaching material. I don't believe that Maxwell himself would have said, if he had been asked that what he was writing at those times was poetry!
Nobody could understand him, so they concentrated on just a few pages of his research to create the world we live in today.
Imagine how advanced the world would be if he was fully understood.
What a legend.
Einstein had a picture of one man on the wall of his office - it was James Clerk Maxwell.
Maxwell - a genius
A wonderful acknowledgement of Maxwell's achievements in their Scottish setting that brings out the intellectual broadness of mind and the delicate senses required in order to step beyond the known.
I'm at a time when you are so much for a long way in hell of an eye on the other day and I have to be able too often for me
Maxwell had the rarest ability to see invisible things precisely as they are. This goes way beyond intellectual brilliance. When he described Saturn rings mathematically, they turned out to be EXACTLY what he predicted, as discovered only much later. When he described human vision mathematically, it was later found that the three detectors in the human eye for red, green, and purple colors were indeed physically there and worked exactly as he described them. The most magical of all was his mathematical description of electromagnetism, which was EXACTLY correct, every bit of it, as discovered much later. His claim that light is an electromagnetic wave is like shooting in complete darkness and hitting the center of an apple on a human head one mile away while knowing that. He was not just a genius; he was a prophet. He discovered things in exact detail from tiny, almost nonexistent hints. I cannot put him before Newton, but I do put him before Einstein, and I am sure that Einstein would have agreed with me on this. Maxwell's vision enabled all post-Newton physics.
Dr. David Goren
Umm. So you don't like Clerk Maxwell at all, do you, Dr.😅?
This is called intuitions that only true geniuses could possibly possess.
Thanks a lot for summarising his achievements in such a elated way.
newton, maxwell and einstein wat great revolutionary scientists !
what happened to Bohr ?
And Faraday
Every scientist was valuable
Mileva Marić Einstein was first wife of Einstein. She was born in Serbia. She knews mathematics better of Albert Einstein. She was invisible and forgotten genius who was solved Theory of relativity.
Feynman too😀
This guy blew me away! I've thought about him many times since learning of him. Thank you Scottish people.
There's been some great British scientists. Newton, Faraday, Green, Clerk Maxwell, Heaviside, Rutherford, Dirac...
Why do I search for Maxwell on UA-cam and get some singer before James Clerk Maxwell?
right, I was facing the same issue. Lead to one of many "I lost all hope for humanity moments"
Maybe because there is more singers named Maxwell than physicists named Maxwell? That and most people sadly don't remember the man behind the equations...
I found "Maxwells silverhammer" first :-)
Excellent short documentary on Maxwell. Something very rare.
Even someone with a passing interest in science must have heard of the famous Maxwell.
That's the problem, people don't even have even the slightest interest in science.
+William Fenton The problem is when you google about only 'Maxwell' you will find a singer and footballer whom has the same name instead of greatest physicist James Maxwell. Anyway, it is strange that Einstein is enough to be found by google.
+yousify He is fortunate enough to not share a name with some idiotic sports or media person.
Most people probably haven't heard of Dirac or Feynman either, but then most people are oafs.
+William Fenton I'll admit..as far as this stuff goes I'm illiterate..I've grown a passion in the last few months in learning more about science..and I can't wait to look up the people you have mentioned..I have a question for you..where does Tesla stand in your opinion?
Most people are oafs because they're not familiar with modern physics? Oh come on, that's a bit harsh, no? ;P
Rodney, it depends if you have the traditional view (Edison's a wizard), the hipster view (It was all Tesla) or the hipster hipster view (Tesla was actually an idiot most of the time).
Tesla is pretty much solely responsible for AC being a thing, so his importance to anything after him that is related to electrical engineering cannot be understated.
james clerk maxwell,is the peotry of modern physics !!
and god said ( maxwell's equations)
....and there was light
+ghiribizzi Actually... The speed of light.
Na, na, na. It was Alexander Pope who said something like, "Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, "Let Newton be!" and all was light."
I'm in this documentary
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Guilty as charged, your honor! I had never heard of James Clerk Maxwell until I saw his brief cameo appearance in the excellent documentary "Einstein's Big Idea," which is available on UA-cam. Very highly recommended, by the way! Since then I have learned what a truly great scientist he was and how much influence he had on modern day science.
I love Maxwell
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It's amazing so many people never herd of Maxwell or his equations but given the state of average human intelligence, I'm not surprised. In my opinion, not to understand on a basic level what these great men and women did for human knowledge and its significance is sad. Yet 99% of the human population can easily identify dozen pop stars, but can't name a handful of people that made their modern lives possible. I'm grateful for my engineering education.
KungFu Master
Because they suck,they r bunch of losers just like Einstein who came up with his bogus theory of relativity.
KungFu Master, you have to admit that Maxwell and his business partner House made great coffee as advertised by Gareth Hunt with a shake of his right hand. I wonder where he's bean?
Good programme- Thanks for the upload!
Thanks for sharing!
he was one of the greatest scientists of all time
❤for Maxwell any color can be represented in a harp of three strings red green blue .
Thank you for the documentary. We need more people to appreciate science like this.
Janes Clark Maxwell was Quantum Leap Human.
I learned ElectroMagnetism in college. Even after 40 yrs, wake me up in middle of night, I will explain Maxwell equations.
Just MAGNIFICIENT.
Beautiful short documentary.
Perfeito! Lindo e profundo. Exato e poético
Terrific presentation. Thanks for making this great man's achievements so accessible to a layman like me.
Oh my god, this is a great documentary; THANK YOU!
But anyway, at 1:59 with the captions on, it says, "match Welsh Siri" ahahaha!
A good documentary. Good one.
Thank you for this.
Thank you for the poetic description of James C Maxwell’s achievements. I am currently developing a workshop on his color theory. I especially loved the visits to his summer home and the universities he was connected to. I very much hope to go there someday.
Thanks for uploading this. Maxwell could stand on top of a mountain and see for miles and miles... you and I are scrambling on the lower slopes.
Masterpiece.
So good
The most beautiful sets of equation!
Very emotional moment Maxwell and farade meets and maxwell proof
Farades fields of force is real😔
In fairness, there are lots of great scientists who don't get their due. Most people also haven't heard of Niels Bohr or even more obscure names like Oliver Heaviside.
It is shocking and a sign of our cultural decadence that Maxwell is not well known. The same applies about the rudiments of quantum mechanics. We learn about the periodic table in high school and yet no one seems to tell the kids why the world is so bizarre at the microscopic level......
Maxwell's equation was a stroke of genius at a time when pure mathematics was somewhat weak in the English speaking world. Henri Poincaré, the French mathematician who was also a popularizer of science, wrote a about the brilliance of the mathematical physicist who was Maxwell.
up and at em Jamesy boi! Keep at it. Bentley and the boys send our regards
great, great man
I wish I knew Exactly how I am related to James C. Maxwell
Just because your last name is Maxwell doesn't mean you're related to James Clark Maxwell.
As I always say, a generation is measured with what they could pass on or take from, in terms of valid information. It shouldn't make a difference which of the two genders picks it first, but may be "picks it better if the person has the habit of observation from an early age!!
im in this!
Amazing scientist
its because of his maxwells equation we are able to communicate with others. the god of EM waves
Lots of love to song musician teacher
Great job. Maxwell is definitely one of the greatest physics of all times.
By the way, the last equation written on the white board that shows up in the minute 9:20 (I. e. the divergence of E=0) is not correct as the divergence of E (electric field) = the electric charge density divided by the permittivity of free space).
Maxwell, Riemann, Cantor. Three great Church Fathers of Modern Science, or Prophets. The nineteenth century was so important and foundational. I also think of Marx, Darwin and Cardinal Newman.
@ 6:15, the level of intimacy demonstrated in this connection is appropriate for a more mature audience.
'Solitude is the school of Genius'-Gibbon
Brilliant! Just a little side note. James was actually a Clerk, his fathers Johns surname, however his father took the name Maxwell as the Clerks had inherited the land or shall we say married into it when Johns Grandfather George Clerk married his first cousin Dorothea Clerk who's Father was William Clerk and who's mother Agnes, Heiress of MIDDLBIE was a Maxwell, a very Noble name in Dumfries, and who's Father John Maxwell of MIDDLBIE who was also a descendant of the Famous Douglasses and Stewart kings and all 3 surnames married each other. So although James was not really a Maxwell, he did have Maxwell blood.
So in a way in which science can often lead with a theoretical insight which gives fresh direction to experimental work and observational work and results in new technologies. Maxwell thank you. Sonya Davidson, CEO H2 Energy Now. using electromagnetism to separate water.
just think without Maxell, we would not have this post, music or telecom for that matter. Einstein said it best....... "Einstein, when he visited the University of Cambridge in 1922, was told by his host that he had done great things because he stood on Newton's shoulders; Einstein replied: "No I don't. I stand on the shoulders of Maxwell".
Could that possibly be Obi-Wan Kenobi at 9:29 in the lower left corner? The (electromagnetic) force is strong with Maxwell!
14:40 " ... for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these."
To Brad Larsson down there, Einstein didn't understand quantum dynamics. Or, he did understand it, he just didn't accept it. Einstein famously said that "God doesn't play dice" but he was proven wrong. Niels Bohr and his Copenhagen interpretation reign victorious.
Anyone studying physics at school should have known about Maxwell's bridge but it seems not in Scotland anymore.
So all they could do is just mention his faith, but no one was interviewed who could tell us the effect it had on his life and its influence on his work. Truly a testament to our time rather than his...and not a good one.
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If you are, "Electrical" it is Faraday, Maxwell, Einstein.
Otis Brown AND TESLA 🙄 Duh!
He learned the work of Faraday
Which made the .....of weather
Magnetic and electric waves
Must fly through space together
And figured since they fly along
At light speed if you let them
The light we see is part of the
Electromagnetic spectrum.
As a foreigner I don't understand the missing word.Can someone tell me which is it,please?
+dalsenov Second line is "which made him wonder whether" easy mistake to make. Whether is not the same as weather, they are homophones. -They sound the same but have different spellings and different meanings.
Thank you very much ,Charlie.
I'm a big admirer of Maxwell as well of other great scientists.
Very nice poem.One doesn't find very often poetry concerning science or scientists.
I like doing various lists in excel tables such as : world's states,scientists,discoveries,etc .Of course one of the lists is the electromagnetic spectrum ,with all EM radiation classified gradually (as a function of frequency or wave lenght).There of course I can see easily that
"the light we see is part of the
electromagnetic spectrum",
meaningly the "visible" domain.
+dalsenov I am glad i could help, that sounds interesting, Keep it up.
+dalsenov Hi dalsenov - I'm pleased you like the lyric! You can find the full lyric on my website , www.alanmcclure.co.uk - look on 'Commissions'. At some point I'll hopefully get the whole song properly recorded, along with a few about other notable scientists. All the best, Alan.
+Alan McClure
High Alan! Thanks for the info!
Congratulations for the nice lyric! With all the nowadays email bombardment I almost missed the info about your new post.I'll visit your website.
All the best to you,as well!
The history of science intersting
why no mention of Faraday?
This video is a out Maxwell.
When my professor Mr. Bhaavsaar use word "Displacement Current" introduced by Maxwell, I landed into new "planet"
And he was a devout Christian with Faraday
To the late 19th and through the 20th century average joe J.C.M. was just a phycist.Now in the 21st everyone at school has been told of this great man.
I changed my last name to Maxwell because (1) it is a balanced name combination and (2) in honor of JCM. True story.
29 years after I changed my name, I came up with a new theory of physics. You can learn more about it on my YT channel. The point, however, is that mine is an ether theory and no other theory on Earth comes closer to it than JCM's model (that he unfortunately later discarded, as he was not one to "speculate").
Genius maxwell
A lot of things wouldnt hv been possible if it wasn't for Maxwell.
Interesting documentary. It is strange that Maxwell is relatively unknown, given what a giant he was. At around 25:00, the guitarist is talking about how Maxwell used a dialect that would have sounded strange to his Edinburgh classmates. I wonder, and this is pure speculation, if he appeared to be an outsider his whole life. Although his family did have money, did he seem like some kind of hick in the posh precincts of Cambridge or King's College? Or was there something about him that people disliked? Sometimes seemingly secondary issues of these sorts can have an outsize influence on a person's reputation during life, and afterwards, too.
Maxwell was amazing also a creationist ..a man of real faith ..wish he was alive today to smash Dawkins .
Grate men maxwell
There's been some great British scientists. Newton, Faraday, Green, Clerk Maxwell, Heaviside, Rutherford, Dirac...
Damn shame. Smartest man to ever live. Unfortunate his life ended prematurely.
Why is there no mention of the fact that Maxwell formulated the work of Faraday? Faraday was an experimental scientist and it is his work that Maxwell formalized. One would think Faraday would be at least mentioned.
Maxwell mathematically confirmed Faraday’s theory. All great men stand on the shoulders of other great men before them.
Ordinary people know way more about soccer players and musical groups than anything important so don’t feel bad or surprised.
Please provide the lyrics to the kid's song if possible. Great!
I listened very hard and got most of it but still have one line that I just more or less guessed from the context and accent. Here's what I heard:
When Jimmy Maxwell was a lad
He vexed his parents sairly (???),
Into this and into that
With questions late and early
Birds and bees or clockwork toys
Always the same old question:
Would anybody tell me please
What’s the goal of that, then?
What's the goal of that?
What’s the goal of that?
What does it do?
How does it work?
What’s the goal of that?
What’s the goal of that?
What's the goal of that?
What does it do?
How does it work?
What’s the goal of that?
I will be visiting Maxwell's house soon...
Eduardo Sarlo
A dream came true..people at JCM Foundation are very nice..👍
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You could do a little bit about Maxwell though
Learning science without knowing who discovered them is like Speaking to a corpse.
I love Magnetism. I make living out of my Love.
James Clerk Maxwell was a creator of Electric Fan to get air circulation on body to cool human body. Today all are getting cool air on body by electric fan. He is a creator of electric current from motion of magnet. Today Mankind much owe to James Clerk Maxwell for his extraordinary works .
I remember him with gratefulness
He was a fatherly man of mankind.
Mohammed Hossain sure he was and he was also the first to present a durable colour photograph
Md Naushad Ali
Science never accept anything if it is proved experimentally or observed by telescope or microscope it is well know
colour protography proved Maxwell' greatness too.
Can you tell me why 7 skies of Quranic Allah could not be discovered by any telescope by science but science could discover millions of Galaxies like our Galaxy by Telescope Why?
Mohammed Hossain I don't know m8 but I saw a news in which NASA claims that they have found seven planets that looks like earth
Md Naushad Ali
Not 7 planets but 8 planets all are moving around sun as centre.This is planetory system. Kepler could calculate planetory motions in orbir. I know Kepler's eauation for calculation.Know it Planets are not skies of Allah as our Earth is not sky even do not look like sky. Means Allah actually does not know what are in our very vast Universe. So Allah is a fake creator. His Quran is false. We are fool so he could cheat Muslim beleivers in this way to get his Magi Hurs in his false Jannath.
Allah is not creator at all.
Mohammed Hossain I think belief is important there are many verses of Quran that came true and then according to you who created the world
There is no video about Maxwell subtitled or dubbed into Portuguese. I wanted to show the video to my students ...
#freepress #space..
Intellectual rap, in fact!