Einstein was reading the best few books of physics of that time and certainly James Maxell his base of his genius. Maxwell did not know and could not break down the Ether barrier which Einstein could. Two different genius and mile stones of our history.
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.
I'm a 70 year-old science nerd. I cannot recall ever hearing the name until I started watching RUclips videos covering various aspects of physics - and that's only been in the last couple of decades or so. In my opinion, his name should as much of a household name as Einstein.
I’m not a Scot - not directly anyway, but I am very proud for Scots- to be proud (if you get that) of the monumental achievements of one such as James Clerk Maxwell and the deep and generous friendship that he showed to Michael Faraday…
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.
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!
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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!
From watching this excellent video it would appear to me that the work of James Clerk Maxwell was a vital stepping stone leading to the development of the mobile phone. Everybody in the world has one of these; yet so few have ever heard of James Clerk Maxwell.
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...
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
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.
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 RUclips. 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.
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.
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.
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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?
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.
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, 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?
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.
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).
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.
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.
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?
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 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!
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?
When Jamie Maxwell wis a lad he vexed his faither sairly Intae this and intae that wi questions late and early Birds and beasts and clockwork toys all raised the same old question, “Faither can ye tell me please, whit’s the go o’ that, then?” Whit’s the go o’ that, whit’s the go o’ that, What does it do, how does it work, Whit’s the go o’ that? His faither sent him tae the school where all the wealthy lads went They ca’ed him daft and for a laugh they made fun o his accent but pretty soon they gi’ed it up, their teasing was in vain Cos Jamie he was happy wi his monumental brain Askin’ “Whit’s the go o’ that...” His childish curiosity was merely a rehearsal And as he grew he turned his mind tae matters universal He used his maths tae match his facts tae underlying patterns And just for fun described the nature o the rings o Saturn He learned the work o’ Faraday which made him wonder whether Magnetic and electric waves must fly through space the-gether And figured, since they fly along at licht-speed if you let them That licht we see is part of the ‘lectromagnetic spectrum Break: Electromagnetic spectrum (Repeat) Radio waves, microwaves, infra-red and visible light ultraviolet, x-rays, gamma-rays radiate through day and night So children, if your parents say ‘Don’t fash me wi your questions’ Remember Jamie Maxwell’s electromagnetic spectrum To figure out the universe we need a place to start and you could do much worse than asking “Whit’s the go o’ that?” Here you go! I was one of the kids singing it 😂 helped me pass my Nat5 physics years later
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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".
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").
Faraday knew how the two were behaving by simply observing but didn't know how or why the two were behaving the way they were behaving till maxwell. Maxwell didn't wrote the four equations called "maxwells equations" they were written by coulomb, ampere but it took maxwell to realize what the interconnection between those equations were. So don't think he just solve some math equations, he literally gave those equations light.
@@zesowl Literally makes no sense. Faraday knew exactly how they were behaving and why they were doing it, but didn't know how to express it in mathematical form. So his theories were unprovable without the mathematics. Faraday didn't just take a shot in the dark guess and need maxwell to explain it. He knew exactly what was going on and explained it beautifully in his lectures and notes. So no maxwell didn't come up with some unifying theory or explanations on why they were doing what they were doing. He just copied it from Faraday. And he didn't even come up with the equations himself. So maxwell is incredibly lucky to have befriended a true genius like Faraday, and even luckier that unfortunately Faraday had no real education. So maxwells big claim to fame is being an opportunist. Not a scientist.
If anyone wants to know from me, select three world's best scientists. I must 1/ James Clarke Maxwell 2/ Nikolaos Tesla 3/ Sir Isaac Newton I will select these three people. These three have opened many paths in the development of our human civilization, modernity and science. Many scientists have found success in their theory and demonstration. So I will call them the heroes of the victory of science.
You don't have to go further the nearest electric outlet to see what Maxwell's Equations give us. If that's not good enough, just look under the hood of most cars. The alternator uses Maxwell's Equations to do its job.
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One scientific epoch ended and another began with James Clerk Maxwell
- Albert Einstein
Einstein was reading the best few books of physics of that time and certainly James Maxell his base of his genius. Maxwell did not know and could not break down the Ether barrier which Einstein could. Two different genius and mile stones of our history.
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.
I'm a 70 year-old science nerd. I cannot recall ever hearing the name until I started watching RUclips videos covering various aspects of physics - and that's only been in the last couple of decades or so. In my opinion, his name should as much of a household name as Einstein.
As a Scot I am glad to see James Clerk Maxwell getting the recognition that he deserves. Thank you for the video.🌱
I’m not a Scot - not directly anyway, but I am very proud for Scots- to be proud (if you get that) of the monumental achievements of one such as James Clerk Maxwell and the deep and generous friendship that he showed to Michael Faraday…
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.
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
Maxwell created our modern world , without him we would have virtually nothing you can see and touch right now in front of your eyes.
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.
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).
Einstein had a picture of one man on the wall of his office - it was James Clerk Maxwell.
Excellent short documentary on Maxwell. Something very rare.
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.
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
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...
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.
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.
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!
It was FARADAY, to Maxwell.
Both incredible people.
From watching this excellent video it would appear to me that the work of James Clerk Maxwell was a vital stepping stone leading to the development of the mobile phone. Everybody in the world has one of these; yet so few have ever heard of James Clerk Maxwell.
Beautiful short documentary.
Good programme- Thanks for the upload!
Maxwell - a genius
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!
Why do I search for Maxwell on RUclips 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 :-)
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.
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.
Terrific presentation. Thanks for making this great man's achievements so accessible to a layman like me.
Thank you for the documentary. We need more people to appreciate science like this.
Thanks for sharing!
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.
Perfeito! Lindo e profundo. Exato e poético
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 RUclips. 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.
A good documentary. Good one.
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.
james clerk maxwell,is the peotry of modern physics !!
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😀
❤for Maxwell any color can be represented in a harp of three strings red green blue .
I love the fact that Maxwell was a Christian and a church elder himself
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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.
he was one of the greatest scientists of all time
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?
I love Maxwell
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The most beautiful sets of equation!
Thank you for this.
I'm in this documentary
Ur mom
up and at em Jamesy boi! Keep at it. Bentley and the boys send our regards
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.
They are often called the "Maxwell-Heaviside Equations."
@@michaelmcgrath3090 crikey. But was Maxwell a genius?
Another genius that most people.have never.heard of
Heaviside. Englishman I suppose you
Maxwells was is and always be the master.
why no mention of Faraday?
This video is a out Maxwell.
Masterpiece.
Thanks 💚
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).
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.
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."
So good
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.
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?
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 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!
its because of his maxwells equation we are able to communicate with others. the god of EM waves
Very emotional moment Maxwell and farade meets and maxwell proof
Farades fields of force is real😔
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?
When Jamie Maxwell wis a lad he vexed his faither sairly
Intae this and intae that wi questions late and early
Birds and beasts and clockwork toys all raised the same old question,
“Faither can ye tell me please, whit’s the go o’ that, then?”
Whit’s the go o’ that, whit’s the go o’ that,
What does it do, how does it work,
Whit’s the go o’ that?
His faither sent him tae the school where all the wealthy lads went
They ca’ed him daft and for a laugh they made fun o his accent
but pretty soon they gi’ed it up, their teasing was in vain
Cos Jamie he was happy wi his monumental brain
Askin’ “Whit’s the go o’ that...”
His childish curiosity was merely a rehearsal
And as he grew he turned his mind tae matters universal
He used his maths tae match his facts tae underlying patterns
And just for fun described the nature o the rings o Saturn
He learned the work o’ Faraday which made him wonder whether
Magnetic and electric waves must fly through space the-gether
And figured, since they fly along at licht-speed if you let them
That licht we see is part of the ‘lectromagnetic spectrum
Break: Electromagnetic spectrum (Repeat)
Radio waves, microwaves, infra-red and visible light
ultraviolet, x-rays, gamma-rays radiate through day and night
So children, if your parents say ‘Don’t fash me wi your questions’
Remember Jamie Maxwell’s electromagnetic spectrum
To figure out the universe we need a place to start
and you could do much worse than asking “Whit’s the go o’ that?”
Here you go! I was one of the kids singing it 😂 helped me pass my Nat5 physics years later
'Solitude is the school of Genius'-Gibbon
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.
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.
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.
Could that possibly be Obi-Wan Kenobi at 9:29 in the lower left corner? The (electromagnetic) force is strong with Maxwell!
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.
For one thing, Faraday was only one of a few important experimental physicists working with electricity, notably Oersted and Ampère.
@GH-oi2jf So true.
@ 6:15, the level of intimacy demonstrated in this connection is appropriate for a more mature audience.
Amazing scientist
great, great man
Anyone studying physics at school should have known about Maxwell's bridge but it seems not in Scotland anymore.
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.
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!!
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.
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.
When my professor Mr. Bhaavsaar use word "Displacement Current" introduced by Maxwell, I landed into new "planet"
Lots of love to song musician teacher
What's the go oh' that?
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.
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.
nice video. was he related to Maxwell Silver Hammer by chance?
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 ...
If you are, "Electrical" it is Faraday, Maxwell, Einstein.
Otis Brown AND TESLA 🙄 Duh!
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".
14:40 " ... for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these."
You could do a little bit about Maxwell though
A lot of things wouldnt hv been possible if it wasn't for Maxwell.
Great video, thank you very much , note to self(nts) watched …… 26:32
James Clarke Maxwell was from another Planet !!!!
The history of science intersting
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").
Damn shame. Smartest man to ever live. Unfortunate his life ended prematurely.
wasn't it faraday's idea, and maxwell helped him prove it using math?
Faraday knew how the two were behaving by simply observing but didn't know how or why the two were behaving the way they were behaving till maxwell. Maxwell didn't wrote the four equations called "maxwells equations" they were written by coulomb, ampere but it took maxwell to realize what the interconnection between those equations were. So don't think he just solve some math equations, he literally gave those equations light.
+zesowl aahhh I see thanks
@@zesowl Literally makes no sense. Faraday knew exactly how they were behaving and why they were doing it, but didn't know how to express it in mathematical form. So his theories were unprovable without the mathematics. Faraday didn't just take a shot in the dark guess and need maxwell to explain it. He knew exactly what was going on and explained it beautifully in his lectures and notes. So no maxwell didn't come up with some unifying theory or explanations on why they were doing what they were doing. He just copied it from Faraday. And he didn't even come up with the equations himself. So maxwell is incredibly lucky to have befriended a true genius like Faraday, and even luckier that unfortunately Faraday had no real education. So maxwells big claim to fame is being an opportunist. Not a scientist.
As usual, the English trying to take the credit for everything.
My God😲 what IDIOTS😥
If anyone wants to know from me, select three world's best scientists.
I must 1/ James Clarke Maxwell
2/ Nikolaos Tesla
3/ Sir Isaac Newton
I will select these three people.
These three have opened many paths in the development of our human civilization, modernity and science. Many scientists have found success in their theory and demonstration.
So I will call them the heroes of the victory of science.
I will be visiting Maxwell's house soon...
Eduardo Sarlo
A dream came true..people at JCM Foundation are very nice..👍
You don't have to go further the nearest electric outlet to see what Maxwell's Equations give us. If that's not good enough, just look under the hood of most cars. The alternator uses Maxwell's Equations to do its job.
Unfortunately, Prof Martin Hendry got the last of Maxwell's equations wrong - the divergence of E is not zero.
+Siddharth Pandya My mistake - thanks.