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Today's Faraday
easilyconfused:
Do you ever wonder how much import we put on historical personalities due purely to their stodgy appearances? Would history assign as much respect to them if they had looked more like today's people? Would Michael Farady have been invited to lecture if he looked like this?
dmlandrum:
I want one of those Faraday t-shirts now.
MightyTwin:
--- Quote from: dmlandrum on August 28, 2010, 05:12:41 pm ---I want one of those Faraday t-shirts now.
--- End quote ---
Seconded.
Time:
Why Faraday? Maxwell was more important.
dmlandrum:
Faraday's ideas on action-at-a-distance being caused by fields with specific field lines was what allowed Gauss and Maxwell to mathematically codify the behavior of electricity and magnetism. Now, there's no way of knowing if someone else wouldn't have had the same ideas as Faraday, but without Faraday, Maxwell and Gauss would've had to build on someone else's work, and that might have happened much later, or proven false, or any number of other outcomes.
So, no, we needed Faraday.
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