The Inspiring and Kind Poetry of Michael Faraday: Scientist Extraordinaire
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- Опубліковано 16 гру 2023
- In this ode to Micheal Faraday, I use original documents and his own words to explain how, without any mathematics, he managed to inspire modern Chemistry, modern Physics and the popular science movement of the 1800s.
"I am no poet..." is from Faraday (1858) Jones The Life and Letters of Faraday (2010) p. 398
"Deep veneration of Mrs. Marcet" is from the same source page 394.
archive.org/details/in.ernet....
"Prelude to Power Micheal Faraday Celebration" is wonderful and simple: • Prelude To Power: 1931...
"Faraday's Chemical History of the Candle" is also great:
• Introduction: The Chem...
"Electrodynamic Waves by Sir Lawrence Bragg" is fantastic too:
• Electromagnetic Waves ...
My video deriving Maxwell's equations (I am very proud of this one):
"Maxwell's Equations Explained" • Maxwell's Equations Ex...
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Kathy….never stop your journey and teachings.
You make watching UA-cam an honorable and enlightening act.
That, starting from nothing and performing only simple experiments, Faraday was able to hypothesise that light was a vibration of electric and magnetic field, I find utterly astonishing. That he was able to do this without using any mathematics makes the achievement even greater. True genius.
I also love physics. I taught a high school course in physics using no math. It was fun to teach and I had students who would never have taken a physics course if it incolved math. One of those students who hated math really impressed me with how well he learned physics.
When I am conveying a concept, I try and couch in simple terms and analogies that allow someone to understand at a gut level how something works or why it works that way. The math, etc., can come later and is much easier to understand if you know where you are going. Richard Feynman was asked to teach a subject at CalTech and he said "sure". A week later he came back and said "We don't know enough to teach it". Faraday was one of those who understood the subject intimately.
Feynman particularly named the Spin Statistics Theorem as the one that physicists maybe is not understanding, because it is so important and so easy to state, yet its proof so complicated, that it is difficult to even present to students.
We miss you, Kathy
Kathy ,Your passion for teaching is so inspiring. Thank you
In 5th grade, my very first book report was on Michael Faraday. It set me on course for loving science, and it's mysteries, to this day and for the rest of my life.
Thanks for all your amazing videos 😊
Awesome!
Your style is so captivating.
The pace and clarity of voice is optimal. You are making understanding as helpful as possible. Let those who would come near, receive the Spark of The Eternal, and not be shocked by its potential.
Wonderful post about a wonderful man. Thank you. Also you identify one of the most serious problems of our age, resignation from the attempt to think about the natural world because of a lack of mathematics. This has enabled some great scams to be perpetrated on humanity. Likewise, I believe that an over-reliance on maths, coupled with a failure to reduce mathematical arguments to human reason, also lead science astray.
Just one minor quibble, on English education. Yes, there was some dire bad practice, back in the day, but in England it was noted, recorded, discussed, and improved. This is why we have the record that people now can 'tut tut' over. In most other cultures, if they had formal education, its abuses were not noted, recorded, discussed, or improved. Those cultures never changed, never moved forward, but left no record that people today can criticize, so they assume they were all good. They weren't. Many were terrible then and are still terrible now. Dickens was a part of the national process of self criticism that made England a (relatively) humane society. He was listened to, and his message acted upon. Just like with slavery. We are remembered as the slavers, not as the first nation to abolish it.
Faraday is my time travel boyfriend.. I've visited many of his living and laboratory spaces (even the lighthouse at Trinity Buoy Wharf).
He was an inspiration to go into the research sciences and how to properly set up experiments along with keeping beauty and poetry in every aspect of the studies.
Every holiday season, "The Chemical History of a Candle" is read in my family.
I'm aware that many fear math and physics, but please don't. It's likely you just had a poor teacher in this regard and you're much smarter and cleverer than you think.
Keep your sense of wonder and enchantment strong throughout your life! 🕯
Kathy, you and Faraday make our scientific hearts SING! Keep these coming please. It warms the heart. Thank you. 👌🏻😎
I am deeply grateful for your videos. They've been a beacon of light through a very dark time.
Not only have they been illuminating - shining a light on history that was glossed over in my education, but also comforting; your video style is warm, friendly, and inviting.
Keep up the wonderful work you do. :)
I just think you are amazing. Thank you so much for sharing such a deep passion.
You are an extraordinary person like Faraday. Thanks so much Kathy!
Wonderful Channel. Thank you very much for your Work.😊
Can’t help you with spreading on social media as I’m on none. But, thank you, because I love, love, love the brilliant quotes. I’ll watch this video more than once to drink in those timeless quotes.
The importance of Faraday as a science communicator is under-appreciated. His Christmas lectures for (what we now call) teenagers have been going at the Ri almost continuously for 200 years. They also are the oldest televised science programmes (first televised over 60 years ago). They captivated my interest in science as a teenager - and now my children too. And there is something deeply moving in having sat in the gallery of the Ri lecture theatre - by the clock - in the same seat that Faraday sat when (as a bookbinder’s apprentice) he attended Davey’s lectures.
I have to say that Faraday's lionization of the woman who thought it worthwhile to put complex ideas into language that a bright layperson could grasp, was incredibly touching. This Mrs. Marcet is worth investigating, as someone who may well be the first true popular science writer of all.
The UA-cam algorithm sent you to me….I think I like it! Thanks for “keeping it real” with physics.
You do Faraday such honor... this is such a unique, unsurprising facet to this gentle good man. Your knowledge and research are so huge Kathy.... thank you, daily!
Incandescent Kathy, you have reignited thousands of smoldering candles. Faraday would be delighted.
Good on you Cathy, keep up your great work
hope you are OK Kathy ---- missing your deep and insightful learning videos.
Thank you, Kathy.
It was related tome that when Sir Humphrey Davy was asked, "What was your greatest discovery?" he replied "Michael Faraday".
Well, that may be the first time that a discussion about physics brought a tear to my eye. Thanks for another wonderful video.
A great video and a concise but excellent short biography of Michael Faraday. Fascinating stuff. The audio quality though, really lets it down.
Are there words to express the gratitud and love we feel when watching your science's videos. ................
On your channel you provide many informative and provocative nuggets of "lost" history. Thank you.
I find this quote from Faraday particularly intriguing: "The view which I am so bold to put forth considers, therefore, radiation as a kind of species of vibration in the lines of force which are known to connect particles and also masses of matter together. It endeavors to dismiss the aether, but not the vibration."
A Lord Kelvin quote "I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind. " Can it be true that - science is as it was and always shall be? A sobering thought. A good thing that Mike did not subscribe to that.
Kathy
Thanks for these videos. I am retired now, but my love for discovery made your channel a no-brainer.
I do not do much engineering any longer; a little domestic kind to keep me busy.
He learned how fields behave without the math. That fact blows my mind (I am in awe of his tenacity and imagination).
Why did I not get this fact before?
I was listening while cleaning in another room and for a moment I thought you were talking about Mark Smith from the Fall.
Beautiful!
Thanks for all you do Kathy. Just about done reading your book and I find mysrlf reading about 3 or 4 pages at a time both to digest all the info and to savor every bit of it. I especially love your enthusiasm and the bullet points after each chapter is such a huge blessing. Never stop!
Faraday and maxwell created whole new FIELDS of physics and mathematics.
Kathy, your love of physics is evident and your ability to share that love is a gift. Thank you. I’m going to go now and light a candle. ❤️
Thank you 😊
This is important, it shows how a beautiful soul of Schiller’s concept of that construct, is able to see and speak more clearly, beauty is truth kind of way. And, poetry or creative composition, has a descriptive power which is greater than the sum of the parts. Take this one more step, and 1 + 1 no longer equals 2, because the parts together change identity in the whole. This leans towards solving Russel’s Paradox, the universe is creative in this way of recombination results in not only different outputs, but hindsight gives new significance to the inputs as well.
So interesting. Had never heard about Faraday's math phobia, had always assumed it was just the opposite...!
I suffered from the same thing as a student. Sitting there in school when the teacher would write an equation on the blackboard, and say we're now going to "solve" it, and after 10 minutes of furious writing would change the equation into another equivalent equation, I never understood why he was doing it, and what "solving" actually meant.
Until I took calculus for non science majors. The professor started each lecture by positing a real world task or problem (like filling a swimming pool or some such thing), and from there he moved to the math. I understood clearly what and why we were doing and got an A for the first time in my life in math.
Kathy we miss you and learning from you!!! Come back soon :)
I look forward to meeting Faraday in heaven.
I keep spotting your videos shortly after you upload them. The algo is working. Love this! Keep growing!
Your channel deserves Millions of subscribers to be honest🙏🙏
Thank you for this excellent video and for fighting the good fight. Your remembrance of Faraday reminds me of my faith in science and those who made such remarkable discoveries. That faith was intertwined with a general faith in humanity, that we could all be intelligent and informed and make the best decisions for both our personal and collective selves. I earned my Ph.D. in biology (1989) out of a love for all that lives. Now, 24 years later, the scientific method still works, yet this biologist is in despair. Humanity is not collectively intelligent enough to prevent the perils it invites upon the entire planet through over-reproduction and disposable living.
Love your vids and the depth of knowledge and passion you have . I think the duo of Humphry Davy and Faraday should be near the top of everybody's list. Looking forward to the new series ,I don't think you'll be short of subject matter.
amazing this is probably my adhd speaking but....... i just now woke up from a dream i had of me explaining to a family why i feel in love with their child, and all i could do is play the most recent song i fell in love with and explain what it had shown when i first encountered it. it is the sense of familirity with tunes that resonate within us and our experiences, it is a familiarity we dont quiet know yet, until we actually listen, often a second and third time, a familiarity that offers a sense of safety to us, as we continue to fall, falling in love. and i dont say love, as in love love, but specfically as in falling in love, because to refrence love itself, isn't something that we can really ever define, love is a term with great breadth, and until we've experienced the love in its fullest breadth, its fullest depth. we must continue to fall through its enirety to understand it completely.. so ultimately, i couldn't explain the love, all i knew is i was still falling, within a space that was familiar and was safe and i was compelled to contiue to listen, over and over again.
the dream reminded me of previous encounters with people ive met where we share our recollections of the moments we find define us.... or the problems we're currently falling within, and of our experiences we find that resonate with them.
waking from it, reminded me of when, after our first meeting, and look at me in silence, with a cold sadness, then embrace me with a warm hug, and whisper thank you.
thank you? but i didn't even do anything, i just had a conversation with them.
I thought, is their world, our world so devoid of conversation that they're dreading returning to is.
was my conversation so impactive that it deserved a thank you?
its been long disturbing me trying to figure out why they appear so solemn or effected by me,
but now i think i get it.
its the resonance caused by slam poetry
it is why we enjoy music
it is why we fall in love
it isnt always obvious
it doesn't have to ryhme
slam poetry
ryhming over and over but through familirity and understanding
simply explaining who or what we our and the essence within our vessel
encoded energy within a familiar broadcast intended to be recieved, clearly and with impact
ironically the song was
still feel by half alive
"When it is hopeless, I start to notice
Falling forward, back into orbit
When I'm furthest from myself (far away)
Feeling closer to the stars (outer space)
I can feel a kick down in my soul
it's pulling me back to Earth to let me know
and this heart that beats inside of me will show
(Oh) it will show"
Thank you
Today, with the support of many Farads, I started a 30hp engine with capacitors alone! Thank you Faraday. Keep up the amazing work Kathy!
Kathy’s sincerity is exactly what the world needs
Thank you so much!!
Your love of the subject comes through in your videos!
Lovely video, Faraday was a great man!!!
Thank you Kathy.
You are an inspiration for me. Can’t wait to read the book
I'm with you, I think Faraday would be my #2 after Newton, if I could time travel to meet someone. I wonder how many geniuses there have been that we'll never even know about just bc they weren't good at math, or rather the particular thing that's most widely agreed upon to be the only or best way to describe whatever it may be that they're still exceptional at regardless. The chances of someone like that holding such a "prestigious" position nowadays is virtually zero. Obviously the reasons are justified but still. 🤔
True. Today, they have excluded white males like him.
wonderful video. i pray you have a blessed christmas and new year.
Your work is very beautiful. Will be touring it for a while. Another wonderful rabbit hole is Weber and his electrodynamics. He worked with Gauss, and there is debate over how velocity and acceleration of a charge might reveal Maxwell as having over-simplified electrodynamics.
A related puzzle is how particles are self-contained. The dielectric prosperities of space might offer a clue, that energy at very high frequencies could retract and finally at higher frequencies, where the refractive index is higher still, permanently reflect against space itself, forming a reverberating dance bubble, a particle.
A related question becomes why atoms and particles seem to be like a perpetual motion, shy of nuclear decay and photon emission or absorption. It makes one wonder if the universe has a pump frequency way above gamma ray frequencies, just like the vibrating plate of the silicone droplet pilot wave experiments are driven by a “pump” frequency to sustain the system for long time frames. Otherwise they would wind down. Why do standing-wave atoms seem to be immune to energy losses? Are they really, or are they pumped?
These ideas are rather outer-edge science, but that’s kinda where we need to use history to gather superior patterns of work and attitude, culture, to bring that level of work back again.
I love the combination of your passion and clarity on subjects like this one. It is not a normal thing to have both qualities as one usually get tongue tied when a topic become too passionate for them. Thank you :)
I love what you are doing ,and you made me love Faraday also❤ ,keep up your brilliant work Katy ❤ you are an inspiration to all ❤
Once, I baby-sitted a nephew of mine for one hour. She was five years old. We were in a car, awaiting her parents. So, there wasn't much to do but talking. And talk we did! One hour was enough to teach her the basics of Einstein's Special theory of relativity. Her acute questions proved she was understanding the subject. Of course, no mathematics were involved, her mathematical knowledge was just counting to 10 or 100. Plain language was enough to let her understand the correlation between space and time and the curvature of it all, and the latter's effects (gravity).
He us my favorite scientist. What a fascinating discovery
Subscribed to this channel when it was less than 500 and love how it's getting into 6 digits. One of, if not the best, physics communication channels on YT.
Food for thought.
Luv ya; 2nd vid hooked.
We owe our daily lives to this man, who was NOT a high school or college graduate. There would have been no DC generators, which made the whole advance of batteries possible in the late 1800s.
Such a wonderful message. We certainly need the math thinkers who loves their equations, but it would amazing if more would be inspired by Faraday's way of viewing the world and how it works.
Kathy, would you consider doing a video on more recent physics such as what have we learned from the Hadron Collider at CERN or who are the great minds in physics today.
She is absolute so great a hero of this universe! Give us more youtube links in the description about old educational scients stuff and we need the connection to modern technology like waht kind of basic science is in wifi or 5g technology. Kiss kathy
A Polymath... without the math.
Teaching people to recognize pseudoscience will fill a great need.
Faraday 🕯️humanity's hero!
جميل أن يذكر فاراداي العرب كحالة شاعرية .. و أنا كنت أقول و أردد دائما في نفسي : يوجد شيء ما غير مفهوم و مبهم و ربما خاطئ عندما تبدأ حصص الفيزياء بمعادلات رياضية مجردة ؟؟
شكرا لك سيدتي و معك على طول السلسلة و أدعو لك و لأحبائك بالصحة و العافية .. وفقك الله 💙
Kathy, that's an incredible video, thank you! I discovered you yesterday watching the video "How the 3rd Law of Thermodynamics Made Einstein Famous" and I am starting to write a book about the Third Law regarding these scientists and also Lewis (different interpretation but it worked something quite similar regarding thermodynamics and chemical equilibrium). Can you tell us what are your sources of quotes and history background's of Nernst used on that video? Thanks in advance, loving your work!
Your video of Boltzmann equation could not be explained without math, but you are right the science diffusion specially physics should be done with easier ideas.
Kathy, you channel is too valuable from a pedagogical and epistemological point of view to leave it aside. Come back!
the word "slam" repels me
Think this guy had something to do with capacitors. Quite a character. Very interesting
Hi Kathy, when can you continue to publish new interesting videos about electricity?
Kathy - have you read "The Maniac" yet? It's a stunning quasi-fictional novel about John Von Neumann. I have few friends to recommend it to, who
both enjoy great writing and understand modern science .
Kathy, Kathy wherefore art thou?
In Standard English, for at least 300 years now, the words "man, mankind, and men" refer to BOTH genders. It was taken for granted by all literate readers in the 1800s.
Where are you Kathy?
(Hosea 4:6) "¶ My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge,..
Here's the next big epiphany: Light = Electricity = Gravity
Hi, Kathy. I'm your big fan from China. Can I repost your video to Chinese platform? I want more people to know these interesting stories. And Thank u for your execllent work
Of course you can.
I realize my comments are not well understood and I should keep them to myself. However, keeping my mouth shut is tough to do. So, to the point. The matter of fluency and skill with mathematics seems to be only for the chosen ones. Time after time one has to deal with and endure criticism by the chosen ones. This creates a barrier and prevents a lot of great things from happening. It has been said that if you cannot express it with mathematics your knowledge " is of a meager nature". I know many that have accomplished wonderful and complex things without the use of complex mathematics. I do not reject mathematics and it is a necessary means of communications but do not tell me that my knowledge is of a "meager nature". Experience and progressions of success and failure are powerful tools. With experience and learning by doing comes intuition and lasting understanding. It would be extremely difficult to set that to equations. Use the mathematics as one means of communications but your life is incomplete if that is your only means and you openly reject "the rest of the story"
Faraday made science cool
Since Maxwell was translating Faraday's concepts into the language of mathematics, it is natural that Faraday understood Maxwell when Maxwell expressed to him what the mathematics meant in ordinary language since the ideas had originated with Faraday in the first place. From this situation, it does not follow that someone else who is new to the concepts and who does not have the background knowledge that Faraday had, would necessarily understand Maxwell's explanations as Faraday seems to conclude in the letter you showed starting at 14:11.
One of the problems that I see often in the attempts in the media to convey scientific concepts to the general public is that in many cases over simplifications lead to widespread misunderstandings of scientific concepts and research results. These misunderstandings then become persistent wrong-headed notions in the mind of the public, which are difficult to correct, and which can lead to erroneous conclusions and misapplications of the concepts.
As the quote misattributed to Einstein states, "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler." (According to Alice Calaprice, editor of The Ultimate Quotable Einstein (2011), this quote might be a compressed version of lines from a 1933 lecture by Einstein: “It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.” I think, however, that the wrong-headed notion that Einstein actually said the misattributed quote has become persistent in the mind of the public and is now difficult to correct.)
Hello Kathy. Why Gauss`s law is called with the Gauss name. Gauss worked in this areas??
Do you have a better explanation to the subject, How electrons flow in a circuit than Veritasium?
Kathy! If you wnated to have a New Zealand physicist read the open why didn't you ask? Faraday wrote poetry? Every day you learn something new about him!
you know the oxidation index? Faraday invented that!
I knew he didn't do math, but math phobia? Great mind nonetheless. Math is a stepping stone between the hand and mind. And Faraday just didn't need it. But I adore the eloquence of math in and of itself, so I have to give the edge to Maxwell. Maxwell was so smart, Heaviside had to translate him for mere genius mortals.
I understand that practically NO Matter and/or Energy could exist in the Universe WITHOUT Atoms and their Components.
I am Especially interested in the Electrons. Which Branch of Science (eg: Physics, Chemistry, Electronics, etc.) is most directly related to Electrons? Personally, I think they are ALL very much Related. Even the Subject of Electric Arc Welding is very much Involved whether someone Agrees OR NOT.
Chemistry is ALL electrons.
The nucleus of atom are not involved in chemistry at all.
Chemistry is ALL about an atom's electrons.
They are like electric standing waves around the nucleus.
Their energy is fixed according to their orbital BUT a free electron not in an atom can have ANY energy is pleases.
@@user-yb9ol8sz7o -- While that may be True, isn't it the number of Protons in the Nucleus of the Atom that gives the Atom it's particular Properties as an Element?
Love your videos and presenting style but the audio quality is really bad here
Perhaps the problem with being afraid of math and not proficient in math is a problem for the American public, but less of a problem in other countries. In the 2022 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), American students' math scores plunged to 'among lowest ever' with the US ranking 34th in the global ranking in math.
Singapore students ranked #1 overall and in every category (Math, Science, and Reading), and Macau students ranked #2 overall and in Math. Taiwan ranked #3 overall and in Math. Hong Kong ranked #4 in Math and #6 overall. Japan ranked #5 in Math and #4 overall. South Korea ranked #5 overall and #6 in Math. Estonia ranked #7 overall and in Math. Canada ranked #8 overall and #9 in Math. Ireland ranked #9 overall and #11 in Math. Switzerland ranked #10 overall and #8 in Math.
The solution to the problem of not understanding the math in Physics is not to dumb down Physics by eliminating the math. Instead, the solution is to better educate students in math so that they will be more proficient in math and less afraid of it, and therefore, better prepared to apply math to understanding Physics.
In German, "man" means a person with no gender implication. "Mann" is the noun for a male human. I suspect that in English, a Germanic language, the use of "man" has this Germanic gender indifference as part of the intrinsic language in addition to the traditional emphasis on males.
In honor of Michael Faraday, please debunk the video done by many (eg varatasium) that the cause of a magnetic field is due to special relativity (and in particular, length contraction/time dilation.)
It is the motion of charge, per Faraday, and the reverse motion of magnetic field, that is responsible for the other. One does not need relativistic speed to create magnetism and likewise one does not need relativistic speed to create magnetic fields.
Sorry, not quite true what you are saying. Faraday needed additional assumptions to explain as much of EM theory as he could in his pre-relativity time.
Agree 200%!
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Hi, Do you give me the permission to translate your videos in to the language Tamil ?
The word "man" derives from the Sanskrit "manas" which means "mind."
In its original it has nothing to do with gender.
I always heard it meant "hand" as in manicure, manipulate, manufacture and manual (labour). A "man" as in a helping hand.
@@tomobedlam297 From the merriam-webster online dictionary:
Man - Etymology -- Noun and Verb:
Middle English, from Old English man, mon human being, male human; akin to Old High German man human being, Sanskrit manu
Then look up "Sanskirt manu" -
The name Manu roughly translates to ''man'' and also has etymological links to the Sanskrit verb man-, meaning ''to think."
When one says "..that science offers to man" it is implied 'human' otherwise he would have said "..that science offers to men". Do not be too touchy about it.