The Scientist Who Inspired Einstein
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Maxwell’s legacy doesn’t need to be propped up through Einstein, he’s a genius in his own right and at the same level as Einstein.
Maxwell is a Genius . Clownstein is a clown.
@@cristig243how so?
@@cristig243and what does that make you? A doorstop?
@@cristig243wtf dude?
Maxwell is indeed the father of Modern Physics, as some describe him. I am adding this video to my collection of papers and videos about Maxwell. Thank you!
Grandfather of modern physics
Please do the magnificent Boltzmann: the great man, physicist, and philosopher whose incredible works inspired and led to quantum mechanics, who also expanded and went beyond Maxwell's work on statistical mechanics. It's extremely needed, new to UA-cam, and would look awesome with this quality of videos you guys post.
I appreciate your channel!!
Agreed!
Maxwell is underrated
What is his rating?
@@春也9 woosh
no. he is not underrated. every physics major student knows him. every physics textbook has maxwell equations
We can both agree on that
He is up there with Newton, Einstein, and Dirac but that is my opinion...
E=MC2/ Einstein = MaxwellClerk squared.
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Check out "How the Scots invented the Modern World" by Arthur Herman.
Maxwell is incredible but so were Smith, Hume, and Hutton
Thank you for sharing this informative video about James Maxwell's groundbreaking contributions to physics. His theories on electromagnetism continue to shape our understanding of the universe today. It's amazing to think that his work over a century ago laid the foundation for many of the technological advancements we enjoy today. Truly a remarkable scientist!
Makes me proud to be Scottish.🩻
The collaboration between Faraday & Maxwell is grossly under-appreciated.
One was a self-made man and the other a geeky math whiz, quite a pair!
Discussing Maxwell's invention of the displacement current as his AHA! contribution when considering the magnetic field of a charging capacitor would have been nice.
No Maxwell without Faraday .
@@cristig243 Indeed.
Perhaps the most underrated scientist, who, more than anyone else, was responsible for the technologies of the modern world
him and also Tesla
@@roozbehsadrolashrafiTesla was an engineer
At 6:23 the woman says Maxwell's work was the most important of the 20th century ...... it should be 'of the 19th century'.
Yeah but most of the technological advancements in 19th century was possible reu to Maxwell's theory.
@@darkstromx1465 You certainly meant: "Most of the technological advancements in the 20th century were possible due to Maxwell's theory." 😂
Maxwell's contributions to Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics laid the ground work for Quantum Mechanics.
Thanks!
Thank you so much Michael!
Respect to James Clarke Maxwell. His brilliant ability in mathematics was the answer Michael Faraday was looking for because he was being ridiculed for his theories, but had no mathematics literacy, in order to do the equations, to prove his theories. JC Maxwell appeared on his doorstep with the magic...
Please do a story on Srinivasa Ramanujan. He was a self taught mathematician and I think his story is extraordinary.
His work includes extending the fields complex analysis, number theory, infinite series (he founded a formula for infinite series of pi), and continued fractions.
Ok, pajeet
"When we turn our attention to the general case of electrodynamics ... our first impression is surprise at the enormous complexity of the problems to be solved.", Max Planck (1932), quoted at the opening of Chapter 15 "General Electromagnetic Fields" in Andrew Zangwill's "Modern Electrodynamics.
Newsthink the channel deserve 'like' as it gives this type of website resources!❤
Einstein once said...
"The year of Galileo's death and Newton's Birth was same; Newton took forward Galileo's legacy...
The year of Maxwell's death and my Birth was also same; As the destiny has it, rest is history..."
Maxwell is undoubtedly among the greatest scientists ever lived!
Maxwell is the ultimate testament that you can be a Christian and also become a scientific giant.
Agreed! The same goes with a number of other scientists who were devout christians as well.
Together with Euler, they are my favorites christian scientists
There are ALWAYS exceptions to the rules.
Believing in a higher power makes sense really, science is kind of a religion also and has many good things with advancing us along, but remember one thing if we could measure and study everything in the universe and put it all in a book you would still be left with the question of where does the universe come from and science does not really have any better answers than the bible.
There are no real answers to these things and i remember yogis saying something like we don't concern ourselves with what god is doing as it was above their understanding :)
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It is strange how, 150 years later, the majority of people still find very hard to comprehend the concept of electromagnetic field and develop any application, using the four Maxwell's equation.
Everybody is happy to utilise an application of an electromagnetic field - a smartphone, a microwave oven, a TV, a Wi-Fi router - without giving an hitch on why the thing work.
Nature is great, the master of all things, an inspiration for those who believe in God; Maxwell was an outstanding mind - only today we are grasping the fact that his intuition was at almost the same level of Einstein Relativity theory.
Thank you for the video...
Almost? Screw that. He was on a level with Einstein and Newton and Bach and Mozart and Plato and Aristotle.
@@rlkinnard infact maxwell might be the only physicist whose story makes me emotional.
Such a great man! Thanks for the video.
Your channel is amazing. you definitely deserve more views
He also made significant contribution in statistical mechanics and control theory.
It's nice to hear the stories of these men of science told openly without the aversion so many have to admitting their deep Christian faith and how it motivated them in their understanding and discoveries
Nickolas and maxwell most underrated gems 😢😢
Was that Maxwell's discovery alone? Didn't Faraday play a major role in the revelation as well?
Maxwell had a wide band of knowledge.
He understood the mathematics and physics of fuid flow and force fields.
Maxwell didn't discover the link between magnetism and electricity, that was Faraday.
What Maxwell did was deriving the total mathematical representation of such a phenomenon.
It's like before Newton, apple still falls from tree. But Newton put in in a formula.
Hans Christian Oersted physician from Denmark discovered connection between magnetism and electricity in 1820 year.
@@grzegorzlagut8917 Not really, because Oersted only discovered only half of it.
The creation of magnetic field via a current is one thing. But the more significant phenomenon is the creation of current via changing magnetic field. That was done by Faraday.
except newton did both
@@davidjohn2534 Buddy, he can't discover Gravity. Gravity is always there, it affects everyone, he just explains it, discovery is different.
Nice to realise Maxwell and Faraday were great friends and that most of Maxwell's electromagnetic discoveries were first shown to Faraday.
How could somebody just realise that colour is made of red or green or blue, exceptional genius.
"What's the go a' that?", JCM as a kid ... and as a grown man.
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0:19 Dont’t forget that it was the danish physicist H.C. Oersted who discovered the link between magnetism and electricity.
And also michale farady
Beautifully explained the life of Maxwell. Can you make a video of Srinivasa Ramanujan or CV Raman one of the greatest in the field of Mathematics and Physics respectively
yes please 🙏
I think, humans see "Red" , "Yellow" "Blue" in Nature. e.g drawings. "Red" , "Green", "Blue" is for TV and electronic display screeens.
this gave me chills, what a brilliant man!
Best video for inspiring scientist very well written spekn and delivered
Just to clarify, Michael Faraday is generally credited with connecting electricity to magnetism with his thoroughly extensive experiments. It is Faraday’s publishings that inspired Maxwell to formalize electromagnetism in a single mathematical structure. Faraday and Maxwell were well aware of each other and there was a great amount of admiration between the two. Faraday fully deserves credit and is inspirational for his lack of formal education, his preternatural experimental talent and his unmatched execution of science 9even with no mathematical rigor). He discovered electromagnetism with his wits and rigor and it is incredibly impressive in its own right.
This is not to diminish Maxwell’s contributions, if anything a blanket credit for electromagnetism is underselling his influence on all physics to come after his model. His field theories revolutionized modeling in physics and set a new standard for mathematical rigor going forward. But he did not discover the relation between electricity and magnetism, he formalized it mathematically (and then showed how light is involved just as a consequence of his model)
I asked an electrician many years ago what he thought of Faraday and Maxwell, he said “Who?” ‘Nuff said.
6:20 I think she means... the 19th Century.
You quickly became one of my favorite channels.
Thank you for this quote that I saw for the first time: "Science is but an image of the truth, and should speak only so far as it is spoken to.” I will be sharing it with my students.
The way to combine general relativity and quantum mechanics is to realize that they take place at different moments in time. Because causality has a speed limit (c) every point in space where you observe it from will be the closest to the present moment. When we look out into the universe, we see the past which is made of particles (GR). When we try to look at smaller and smaller sizes and distances, we are actually looking closer and closer to the present moment (QM). The wave property of particles appears when we start looking into the future of that particle. It is a probability wave because the future is probabilistic. Wave function collapse happens when we bring a particle into the present/past. GR is making measurements in the predictable past. QM is trying to make measurements of the probabilistic future.
It is not accurate to say that GR is making measurements of the past while QM is making predictions of the future. Both theories can make predictions about the past, present, and future, depending on the context in which they are applied. However, they do so in different ways and at different scales.
Light travels at a finite speed, so the light that we receive from distant stars and galaxies is actually a snapshot of what they looked like in the past. However, this does not mean that we are seeing the past itself, but rather a record of what happened in the past.
When we observe smaller and smaller particles, we are not necessarily looking closer at the present time. Quantum mechanics is a probabilistic theory, and the wave function of a particle represents the probability of finding the particle in a particular state at a particular time. This means that the wave function can give us information about the future as well as the past. In fact, according to the time-reversal symmetry of quantum mechanics, the laws of physics are the same whether time runs forwards or backwards.
Thank you for this video. It is the most fascinating video on science that I've seen for a good year. Wow!
7:55 can someone rephrase that and tell me again? It didn’t make sense, is it because the ball’s speed isn’t constant?
In that example, if she threw a ball towards you at 20 mph, the relative velocity between you and the ball will be 20 mph. But if you move towards her at 5 mph and then she throws the ball towards you at 20 mph, the relative velocity would be 20+5 = 25 mph. In the same way, if you move away from her at the same speed, that number would be 20-5 = 15 mph. Basic Newtonian Physics. But no matter how absurd it sounds, light simply doesn't obey this rule. Like, if she flashed a light beam towards you at 20 mph (The actual speed of light is always 299792458 m/s) and you start running towards her at 5 mph, the relative velocity of you and the ball is not gonna be 20+5 = 25 mph, but just 20 mph. Similarly, if you move away from her at 5 mph, the relative velocity would still be 20 mph and not 20-5 = 15 mph. In real life, no matter how fast you run towards or away from a light beam, it will always be at exactly 299792458 m/s relative to you.
I love your channel because of your such contents and as usual your voice fits the best
Brilliant video! Thank you so much for these lovely biographies on physicists and other scientists! One of these figures I often find not much explored is the Indian astronomer Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. Who’s name reigns familiar to many modern day astronomers due to his significant contributions to our understanding of stars. Though for more than the science, he is an interesting case of someone moving abroad to pursue his scientific endeavors as well as facing opposition of his ideas due to the prejudices of a more well-known superior in that time (Eddington. Who proved Einstein’s theory of general relativity with the eclipse). Keep up the great content!
Love your videos. God bless you ma'am
Please make a documentary on David Hilbert.......plzplzplz
Amazing, an informative video. Can you possibly do a video on Richard P Feynman?
Already done: ua-cam.com/video/yRcOEnIOzII/v-deo.html
Thank you so much
Henri Poincaré felt that Maxwell was underrated, at least in continental Europe, as a mathematician. But I never felt that he was underrated as a physicist. He is one of the greatest physicists who ever lived.
His addition of one term to the electromagnetic equations, to preserve charge, gave us light as an electro-magnetic wave. This is one of the greatest achievement of mathematical physics. Later the realization by Lorentz that these equations where invariant under a set of transformations bearing his name, almost give us Special Relativity before Einstein....
Finally the quantization of his equations, by Feynman, Tomonaga and Schwinger put all of chemistry under one theory, QED, the most precise theory ever concocted by men.
Maxwell is almost a God for physicists and engineers : every day we deal with his equations whether we like it or not. Gravity is important, but without Maxwell, chemistry and biology would have remained impossible to understand from first principles.
Thanks for sharing this
Now it is time for me be the Einstein of neuroscience. Amin. Amin . Amin.
A humble genius , his work in electromagnetism is unique and inspiring. No wonder Einstein admired him.
You seem to have James Joule in one of your “Maxwell” photos?
He also wrote poetry. I once read that most physicists are confortable with Einstein's Mathematics, but few understand Maxwell's.
What's Einstein's mathematics?
pure joy this video
Thanks for sharing the video
Very well made; Thr technical and personal details are fabulous
Wish every middle school kid would see such videos to get to love science
Thank you for what you do!!
A bit of obscure knowledge: Maxwell summarized his electromagnetism with 12 equations. A mathematician named HEAVYSIDE reduced them to the 4 famous ones.
True genius!
Maxwell was so unique, I love how fascinating his ideas on electromagnetism inspired so many good scientists to come, and contributed to the birth of the scientists Einstein and the engineer Tesla. Thank you for rendering the world a better place!
which song is this?
Thank you for telling the entire truth in your biography's videos.
Maxwell (as well as the great majority of the 300 greatest geniuses of mankind) believed in God. And you just say it clearly, I appreciate that.
As a university professor myself, I am tired of finding people who want to hide the relation between the greatest minds and their faith in God.
No problem with atheism, no problem with faith, but, as scholars, we are trained to teach the truth, not to hide it. And we train our students to do so as well.
Thank you for your great job!
Saludos desde Buenos Aires.
This is not a relation but a coexistance
In fact, from the statistical point of view, it is a correlation.
The facts correlated are:
1- 300 most intelligent people in history
And
2-If they believed in God or not.
And the fact is that the great majority of them believed in God.
Most people might find this hard to believe, but it is the truth.
Violet= 50 Ohm gives off willingly the color of ROYAL
I'll never forget Maxwell's equations from when I studied Physical Chemistry in college.
Excellent research and report. Thanks. Electro-magnetic theory explains much to my simple mind, but like much, we see its behavior but not it.
What is the speed of GRAVITATIONAL FIELD???
Look into Bergson
Very touching video😮
This is awesome, such an inspiration.
Title suggestion, Albert Einstein said "I Stand On The Shoulders Of Maxwell"
Saying, Albert Einstein Said, at the beginning draws the eye and curiosity, having Maxwell in the title is needed for a search word relevant to the video and quoting Einstein shows you're bringing facts and not opinions.
I understand my channel & videos are nowhere near the caliber of yours. I use TubeBuddy often to decide on Keyword to use in title, video title in file name to upload, first few seconds of video and first part of description.
We need More such physics videos. You are really good it
Thanks
Micheal Faraday was the first person to hypothesize EM waves.
Really love your videos!!!!❤❤❤❤
"170" years later, and sadly Edinburgh University suffers from the same discrimination, as does the city of Edinburgh itself!
I have lived in Edinburgh, and spent 2 1/2 years semi-homeless here, and have not found the city welcoming in this respect, and that even now "8 years" later, that same stint of homelessness follows me around, and I am still 'banned' from various activities now. Nothing else, but 'crass discrimination' and these are organisation on their websites speak of 'inclusivity.'
Very touching story of a life.
Great human. Practical applications are great, but theoretical science provides a framework for them, so I regard it higher. Not only that, but theoretical science aims to satisfy our thirst for knowledge about how things work, which in my view is the highest of goals.
Your videos are just the best.
What a curve ball, I thought this was going to be about Ernst Mach
I love what you teach me and look forward to Every video. Thank You.
Maxwell did so much contribution to science
I love James Maxwell. He was amazing
I hate James Maxwell. He was uninspiring.
@@icemine2418 I disagree
Albert Einstein didn't have any IQ
IQ means saved data in computer.
Happy Birthday!
Another video for why I'm subscribed to this channel. :)
He is so understand 😢
Engrish moment
Light began as the stir of universal imagination began love and inspirational colorful life
Light is the bursting of darkness torn under vibration ( the same speed of light is impossible even instep laser because at different space density and from source to distance change frequency so change speed )
James Clerk Maxwell is my lifelong hero. Probably the greatest scientist of all time. The giant who,, standing on his shoulders, allowed Einstein to see father...
great content as always!
Idk why Im kinda resonating with the story
Maxwell and Heaviside are is the real hero of physics. Einstein as you will see lead us down a rabbit hole. Maxwell showed that setting the wave equation = 0, shows that EM fields propagates at speed c. But Heaviside showed that this only approximately valid in the farfield, and in the nearfield the wave equation must be set to a source term. Analysis shows that the fields propagate instantaneously in the nearfield and reduce to the speed of light in the farfield. Recent experiments have confirmed this. This occurs for not only the phase speed, group speed, but also the information speed. See the links below for more information. So the speed of light is not a constant and any theory such as Special Relativity or General Relativity that assumes this is wrong!
A derivation of Relativity using instantaneous nearfield light, yields Galilean Relativity, where time is the same in all inertial frames and no Relativistic effects are observed. This can be easily seen by inserting c=infinity into the Lorentz Transform, yielding the Galilean Transform. So, Relativistic effects will observed if a moving body is observed using farfield light, but no Relativistic effects will be observed if instantaneous nearfield light is used. How can the effects of Relativity be real if they can be switched off by simply changing the frequency of the light used to observe them. The only possible conclusion is that Relativistic effects are just an optical illusion, and that Galilean Relativity is the correct theory of Relativity, where time is absolute, only the present exists, the past is gone, and the future is yet to be.
Since General Relativity is based on Special Relativity, then it has the same problem. A better theory of Gravity is Gravitoelectromagnetism which assumes gravity can be mathematically described by 4 Maxwell equations, similar to to those of electromagnetic theory. It is well known that General Relativity reduces to Gravitoelectromagnetism for weak fields, which is all that we observe. Using this theory, analysis of an oscillating mass yields a wave equation set equal to a source term. Analysis of this equation shows that the phase speed, group speed, and information speed are instantaneous in the nearfield and reduce to the speed of light in the farfield. This theory then accounts for all the observed gravitational effects including instantaneous nearfield and the speed of light farfield. The main difference is that this theory is a field theory, and not a geometrical theory like General Relativity. Because it is a field theory, Gravity can be then be quantized as the Graviton.
Lastly it should be mentioned that this research shows that the Pilot Wave interpretation of Quantum Mechanics can no longer be criticized for requiring instantaneous interaction of the pilot wave, thereby violating Relativity. It should also be noted that nearfield electromagnetic fields can be explained by quantum mechanics using the Pilot Wave interpretation of quantum mechanics and the Heisenberg uncertainty principle (HUP), where Δx and Δp are interpreted as averages, and not the uncertainty in the values as in other interpretations of quantum mechanics. So in HUP: Δx Δp = h, where Δp=mΔv, and m is an effective mass due to momentum, thus HUP becomes: Δx Δv = h/m. In the nearfield where the field is created, Δx=0, therefore Δv=infinity. In the farfield, HUP: Δx Δp = h, where p = h/λ. HUP then becomes: Δx h/λ = h, or Δx=λ. Also in the farfield HUP becomes: λmΔv=h, thus Δv=h/(mλ). Since p=h/λ, then Δv=p/m. Also since p=mc, then Δv=c. So in summary, in the nearfield Δv=infinity, and in the farfield Δv=c, where Δv is the average velocity of the photon according to Pilot Wave theory. Consequently the Pilot wave interpretation should become the preferred interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. It should also be noted that this argument can be applied to all fields, including the graviton. Hence all fields should exhibit instantaneous nearfield and speed c farfield behavior, and this can explain the non-local effects observed in quantum entangled particles.
*UA-cam presentation of above arguments: ua-cam.com/video/sePdJ7vSQvQ/v-deo.html
*More extensive paper for the above arguments: William D. Walker and Dag Stranneby, A New Interpretation of Relativity, 2023: vixra.org/abs/2309.0145
*Electromagnetic pulse experiment paper: www.techrxiv.org/doi/full/10.36227/techrxiv.170862178.82175798/v1
Dr. William Walker - PhD in physics from ETH Zurich, 1997
I've always thought it was Minkovvski...
There's been some great British scientists. Newton, Faraday, Green, Clerk Maxwell, Heaviside, Rutherford, Dirac...
I'd say preceded would be the right word.
Newton
Maxwell
Einstein …
In that order!
You said @7:50 +/ a few that Einstein showed that the speed of light never changes. That is not correct. The constancy of the speed of light is his 2nd postulate of Einstein's special theory of relativity.
Maxwell helped create radio, television, computers. Inspiring Einstein was a small byproduct of his work.
An Invisible Genius 👌 😞 Y …🏴😎