Maxwell's Equations Were Discovered [video]

Maxwell's Equations Were Discovered [video](youtube.com)

25 points by surprisetalk 2 hours ago | 10 comments

andai 1 hour ago |

Video title is How Maxwell's Equations Were Discovered, HN's regex thingy changed it to Maxwell's Equations Were Discovered. (My brain's regex changed it back :)

amelius 1 hour ago | |

Isn't it about time HN replaced the regex by AI?

dvh 9 minutes ago | | |

Removing how is stupid. If the "extraneous" how is there, you can still understand it, but when the necessary how is removed, it doesn't make sense or it changes meaning. When I read the title I thought someone is trying to lower the weight of Maxwell's contribution by suggesting he merely discovered them, not "invented" them.

wolfi1 48 minutes ago | | |

oh oh

amelius 1 hour ago |

If you like this make sure you watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDlZ-aY9GN4

which explains that magnetism is just an emergent property when you start from Coulomb's law and relativity.

AlexeyBrin 1 hour ago |

The original title is much better How Maxwell's Equations Were Discovered. As it is now Maxwell's Equations Were Discovered it sounds like they were just discovered or someone rediscovered the equations.

bee_rider 2 minutes ago | |

I expected a philosophical discussion as to whether scientific models are discovered or invented.

Ono-Sendai 1 hour ago |

Interesting, I need to look into Maxwell's original formulation with the vortices. You can write electrodynamics in terms of small spinning elements: https://forwardscattering.org/page/Intuitive%20Quantum%20Ele...

bpavuk 59 minutes ago |

I can imagine the world where this post gets more visibility through a funny regex error than actual equations :)

ck2 46 minutes ago |

if you aren't afraid of difficult math breaking your brain, I highly recommend this youtube channel "PhysicsExplained" (sorry I forget his actual name but he is brilliant)

he has a recent two-parter on Maxwell and electro-magnetism that are EXCELLENT

* part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqxrlunKCaU

* part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt1KJtD4Qh8

but I am not kidding about the math, he starts off slow and gentle and hooks you in, but sometimes after 10 minutes in my brain is screaming and cannot keep up