Father of Modern Physics: James Clerk Maxwell
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- James Clerk Maxwell's name is not as well known as Newton or Einstein, yet his discoveries were transformative. The History Guy recalls the life of Scottish Scientist James Clerk Maxwell, whom astronomer Carl Sagan said "has done more to shape our civilization than any ten recent presidents and prime ministers.”
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Fantastic video on one of humanity's greatest scientists that not everyone knows about! Thanks for the great collaboration my friend!
Few know of him because you must have a very solid math background to understand the rudiments of his discoveries. Genius is often that way.
@John Pershing Well then.....continue!!
@John Pershing What the hell is an "usher for humanity"? "Electric universe models dont (sic) need to invent or manipulate the physical or mathematical sciences to achieve and (sic) explanation." Okay, then what is the basis of your "electric universe models," and how do they diverge/differ from Maxwell's equations? Surely there MUST be SOME math behind it, Mr. Science. The implication of your vague first retort is that you don't need no stinkin' Maxwell's equations to explain your Safire Sun thing. Basic arithmetic will do? I'm dying to hear this. Let your dogma-free personal insults begin, dude.
Don't forget, he was a devout evangelical Presbyterian. Religious atheists like to forget about scientific history like this.
@@awesomeferret I don't understand your point. Plenty of great physicists are, and were devoutly religious. Prime example is perhaps the greatest physicist of all time - Isaac Newton.
As an engineer, I studied Maxwell’s equations, but I had no idea he was so gifted in so many areas and was so influential.
I have long credited Maxwell with being the father of theoretical physics, and there can be no doubt he invented radio. Electromagnetic waves had existed forever, of course, but we knew little about them and thought of magnetic and electric fields as distinct entities. Maxwell's equations unified them in 1862 and he formally described electromagnetic waves in 1864 but it was another 30 years before legends like Heinrich Hertz and Guglielmo Marconi figured out the practical details. Maxwell also described "amplitude modulation sidebands." Considered a mathematical fiction for decades, they were demonstrated by use of electronic filters that doubled the capacity of expensive long distance telephone circuits from the 1930s into the 1960s. I feel comfortable asserting the world as we know it today would not have existed even yet without the incredible mind of James Clerk Maxwell. Like Jagadish Chandra Bose, he is worth remembering with awe.
Marconi Did Nothing Except Cash In On The Work Of Others, Just Like Steve Jobs. Faraday, Maxwell, Hertz, Tesla & Fessenden Are The Reason Why, Especially Maxwell!
Yay Jagadish Chandra Bose ! Doing microwaves in the nineteenth century! Look him up - another outstanding figure of science . . .
Marconi stole Tesla patents!
@@jackeroo75 Marconi Did Nothing Except Cash In On The Work Of Others, Just Like Steve Jobs. Faraday, Maxwell, Hertz, Tesla & Fessenden Are The Reason Why, Especially Maxwell!
When starting college, I was torn between two subjects: physics and history. I chose physics and went on to teach and do research in physics and applied math, yet I remain an avid amateur historian. Thank you for a great video on one of my intellectual heroes, and for an outstanding channel.
Physics has a hidden history timeline which is sooooo entertaining
Check out Kathy loves physics. She is a physicist and historian.
You are a genius storyteller, Mr. History Guy. I enjoyed this tremendously.
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Wholeheartedly agree! Great writing and story-telling - an art rare on RUclips.
Humbling, to hear that he was so brilliant but remained a nice guy. We really should know his name.
Like the Bass section in music, he was the foundation that goes unnoticed, unless it's missing.
Said every rhythm section member everywhere.
As a long non-practicing drummer, I know the bass player is the one who REALLY sets the beat!
Wow! Great video, and what an amazing person! Maxwell's brilliance certainly gives the rest of us reason to be humble about our own meager intellects.
Well said! 👍🏼👍🏼
I love that closing quote.
Thank you for doing a video on Maxwell, who surely deserves to be remembered! You might also consider doing one on Oliver Heaviside, who reformulated Maxwell’s Equations into the 4 that are known today. He also invented coaxial cable and theorized the ionosphere.
"The Forgotten Genius of Oliver Heaviside: A Maverick of Electrical Science" ~ Basil Mahon
Amazing episode! Every electrical engineer is taught Maxwell's equations, so he is not as unknown as some might think. I'm the chairman of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques society for Minnesota (Twin Cities) and in which most of our members use Maxwell's equations daily, though computers have greatly reduced the work.
Wonderful video, James Clerk Maxwell (as a fellow Scotsman) has a special place in my love of Physics. I aspire to become a tiny fraction of one of the greatest minds to ever live.
Please include Maxwell's beautiful equations. It really helps to see them. Thank you so much for the life and history of this brilliant scientist.
About time he gets a video!
As an OTHS physics teacher I frequently touted Maxwell. Thank you so much for bringing his accomplishments to light! Keep making such great content!!!
This was outstanding. Thank you.
As a retired EE I find this presentation particularly poignant. The fact that I find inescapable is that the greatest contributions are those who are humble enough to recognize the contributions of those who came before them and pass the baton forward to the next. Thanks for taking on this fairly technical topic.
Every Electrical Engineer knows Maxwell. Thank you for another Self-Isolation most excellent story. Edit: I should have said "Grateful to Maxwell.
Every educated (high school?) person in the world knows of Maxwell.
Sadly, not in the US. But our HS kids know who the Kardashians are. Does that count?
@@demef758 And our TAXES usually pay for their "education". Pathetic, isn't it?
Every Physicist too!
I am not an electrical engineer but I am grateful to Maxwell. I am a locomotive electrician. Yes I stand on Maxwells shoulders for a living.
One small criticism: When you say that “he did this ... without experimental evidence,” he did begin his work on electromagnetism by considering the experiments of Faraday and others.
Every scientist begins by considering the work of previous scientists, that's nothing special. He means that the work he did was all done via pen & paper. He just didn't do his own experiments.
@@g00gleminus96 See also Einstein's thought experiments.
@@g00gleminus96 but not Newton...
Hails from Scotland, I've been a fan of your videos for a while, this one brought me alot of joy, you did a great job of covering the Dafty's life haha
I'm amazed at the idea that Maxwell is not famous. I suppose I was lucky at school, I thought everyone knew about him. Great video, thanks.
Excellent episode THG. I'd literally just started watching the Arvin Ash, (I'm a subscriber to his channel), when your notification came up. Naturally, I had to put Arvin on hold while I watch my main man, THG.
Thank you sir.
I forgive you Ian. haha.
Small point, he was Scottish and as such Clerk is pronounced Clark. Yes the English language is a wonderful thing. 😊
And Marischal is pronounced marshal.
Bugger, you both beat me to these pronunciation issues.
I made the same mistake myself when I studied Maxwell in my History of Science course at university.
It's pronounced however your accent causes you to pronounce it. Don't be a prescriptivist. It's a fool's pursuit.
These are names,@@VoidHalo, so, perhaps a little respect?
Amazing story, presented expertly. Love the way you express your words.
Died at 48, makes you wonder what else he would have gone on to avhieve !. Same with Turing dying early.
Way ahead of poor Mr Turing, an order of magnitude greater, up there with Newton.
Fraid most genius physicists do their best work young, but who knows, if he'd shuffled of in his 70's he might have discovered relativity.
You’re right… but Alan Turing was unfairly persecuted by the ridiculous anti-homosexuality laws of his time. We will never know whether or not Turing’s sad and untimely death was suicide, accident, or murder.
Don't know how I missed this one since I watched so many of your videos and enjoy them all. It was outstanding.
What might have been, had Maxwell lived into his 70s. Such goodness and productivity, we’re not long for this life.
Speachless to the mind of this gentleman, We are better for his thoughts.
Loved the quote at the end. Great video. Thanks so much.
Well done! The best short presentation of Maxwell I have seen. Thank you!
Thank you for another lesson. You can take a subject that I’m not interested in and make it interesting. I can’t imagine what it would be like to be a student in one of you classes. You make even uninteresting history interesting. Thanks again and God bless.
Ammo Dog AMEN!
Just come straight from Arvin's channel. Great collaboration this.
Great presentation. I learnt more from watching your short presentation than from a tv documentary about Maxwell. Thanks
I was so pleased to see two of my favorite channels collaborate like this! Thank you both :)
As a subscriber that has followed you for some years, This is probably the finest example of your genius. I have posted this video on my FB page. Its that important. "History that deserves to be remembered" Thanx for all your hard work, and Mrs. History Guy for hers. Our Mothers, Daughters,Sisters,Wives our better angels deserve to be acknowledged. Keep up the good work.
I remember my Physics professor talking about how amazing it was that the Maxwell equations survived the revolution in physics of quantum physics.
Awesome! Thank you! As an amateur radio operator, I am a beneficiary and an appreciator of Professor Maxwell's great work.
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I have to admit that the History Guy is the best video on RUclips. I truly enjoy before going to sleep at night just listening to him.
Maxwell's Laws are a very beautiful application of differential equations, and when I tutor the subject I often use them as examples.
Fantastic video. There are a lot Videos on RUclips about Maxwell but this one really speaks to those who are not so mathematical. Excellent work. Thank you!
You stretch my mind sir, thank you. Your content is enjoyed and appreciated.
it was most beautiful.... bravo Bravo sir ..... great video and well spoken...
One of the bright points of being isolated during Covid is watching your videos. I'm 60 and from the days history was still an important class taught in school, it always being one of my favorite subjects. As I watch each video, I am taught history in such a thoughtful, entertaining way. At the end of each, I smile and think, how nice it is to learn something new - and then look for another... Thank you.
Thanks for this and for the shout out to Arvin Ash.
This man's equations, if applied to the universe, open up knowledge that had been long overlooked by virtue of people's obsession with Einstein.
Thanks for bringing light on this very important man.
Khắc cảnh lê Einstein was more contemporary and public, with more visible directly applied innovations. His insistence that a A-bomb be built(he sent letters to the president urging for it) and his work in making them a reality being a large part of it.
Of course he is more well known.
@Alexander Strickland Yes, it is no wonder that Einstein is better known. That does not make Maxwell any less important. They had similar careers applying pure mathematics to questions of physics, usually leaving experimental confirmation to others.
*WRONG.*
Einstein reconciled Galilean relativity with Maxwell's equations - the result was special relativity. Half of Einstein's first paper on special relativity detailed transforming Maxwell's equations - and Maxwell's equations were the first existing physics equations that worked consistently with special relativity.
So basically, your either/or proposition along with your premise that physicists haven't taken Maxwell's equations into account simply reveals that you've never studied advanced physics or cosmology - or even electrical engineering for that matter - and you don't know what you are talking about.
And that would explain why you just posted the backbone statement of trolls who peddle a phenomenally ridiculous brand of word salad called the electric universe /plasma cosmology and insist that it's physics. It's not, it's the ravings of a psychologist who decided that the theory of the master race was correct all along so he invented all sorts of myths and pseudoscience to go along with his story. It's well documented, and there's absolutely no point in trying to argue otherwise.
The usual trolling cycle to object to the truth that I've just spoken is for either you or a trolling cohort to get outraged and invoke Tesla along with all of the things about Tesla that we ignore or do not know about. Like your Maxwell statement, that too will be completely false.
I personally wish that people would take half of the time they do believing in internet conspiracy stories about Tesla, Maxwell, and Einstein and study actual science.
There are a great number of sources that make it interesting and fun to learn about. Just like The History Guy, only with science.
@@Ni999 you seem like a well read person, so I'll give you one book to challenge your ideas. Read Anthony Peratt's book on plasma. Then get back to me. Good day.
@@khaccanhle1930 I can save you a lot of time right now.
I've worked testing plasma events for quite some time, including for the Department of Energy and have worked in a separate department at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where Anthony has been employed for quite some time.
It's true, his body of work does include plasma cosmology.
It's also true that his work has been misappropriated by the electric universe /plasma cosmology pseudoscience crowd, who pedal complete hogwash.
While they insist that the soulless orthodoxy of big science, worshipping Albert Einstein, have never gathered empirical data, have never opened their eyes to the wonders of Maxwell, Tesla, plasma, and no other end of bald faced lies, Anthony and several other thousands of members of the soulless orthodoxy of big science have been busy formulating theories and conducting experiments and gathering data for decades.
Unlike the big plasma experimental breakthrough by the electric universe /plasma cosmology crowd that blows the lid off of our lies and reveals the real truth - that is actually just a modern recording of an educational film from the 1930s demonstrating plasma effects for beginner physics students of the day - the real physics and cosmology communities have been doing real work.
In fact, instead of making things up using word salad, real science has recently been publishing fairly new data about the heliosphere and the near side of interstellar space. Of special interest to everyone - it dominated the science news for a few weeks last year, perhaps you'd seen it - were the exciting results of plasma measurements made by both Voyager spacecraft.
We were able to gather that data thanks to the excellent work in the design and construction of the two Voyagers decades ago, and their ongoing mission support on earth ever since.
Of course we were able to place them in interstellar and near interstellar space thanks to the trajectory management and very detailed course calculations using gravity assist, a feat considered impossible by the electric universe /plasma cosmology crowd who claim that gravity does not exist and we would know that if we understood Maxwell's equations.
Which by the way, we do. Exceedingly well. And we use them. Daily. We build things on earth using them and we use them across a number of disciplines ranging from solid state physics to actual cosmology to electrical engineering and other disciplines as well.
It's not some hidden knowledge that would blow the lid off of everything if we used them to take a fresh look at the universe.
It's public knowledge that we've been using for well over a century to blow the lid off of what we think we know about the universe.
You wouldn't have GPS navigation without special and general relativity and you wouldn't have had those without Maxwell's equations.
Everyone working on the universe gets it, it's not a secret, it's not something we suppress, and everyone in cosmology, astronomy, and astrophysics do seem to try hard, often succeeding, in getting new results out in the news for everyone and into schools as soon as possible.
Please let me know if you have any other questions.
Thank you for helping me keep sane during this isolation period...
Tesla as well as Einstein Have said we ride on the shoulders of Maxwell! A very profound statement.
Great video, thanks from John, Australia.
I just finished watching Arvin Ash's video. I was pleased that he addressed my question about how light is able to cross the universe without running out of steam (pardon the analogy). I didn't fully understand his explanation, but I am not a physicists. All the same, he made it more digestible and put me one step closer to comprehension. After watching your historical perspective, I guess you could say, that in physics, Maxwell is the missing link between Newton and Einstein. Such episodes as these are why I never miss anything you or Arvin post. I am glad to see your channel continuing to grow. Keep up the great work.
Thank you so much for making history interesting to listen to!
Your videos ought to be used in classrooms! Maybe then, children would remember the history that they learn!
One can dream, can’t one?
I enjoy your presentations very much, but I feel certain this is the best one I’ve yet seen....
What an excellent and uplifting presentation. Thank you History Guy.
superb - thank you very much. Twinned with the Arvin video, a wonderful pair - a true collaboration worthy of possibly the finest example of maths & physics working together in harmony. delightful.
As always, your videos inform, amaze, and delight me. Thank you, sir.
Hell, Mr. Geiger! What a wonderful video and great to see your collaboration with Prof. Ashe (my favorite Science Guy). I came to your channel via your Joe Scott interview. After seeing the depth and variety of your great videos I subscribed immediately.
But digging deeper than simply complimenting your presentation and research, I believe what you (and Joe and Arvin, et al) do is actually CONTRIBUTE to society. It's an important and very necessary effect that transcends simple "views" and "likes". Thank you for all of your work and Best Wishes :)
Thanks, I love the history of science. A very amazing, observant man!
I arrived here from Arthur Ash yet I have subbed to your channel some time ago!
Excellent video. Thank you for sharing!
He is a famous son of Scotland and well recognised in his home country. Any engineer will know his name. 🏴
Craig Evans As an American engineer and grandson of Scottish immigrants, I named my son Maxwell James. Reflecting the obscurity of James Maxwell among lay people, no one has ever commented on the connection.
...that is really interesting.. True, lay people are ignorant of those that made the modern world possible, those few of us that work in science and engineering would notice immediately and see the respect.
Craig Evans - Anyone interested in science knows about him.
GH1618 This vignette brought home the Great Genius that was Maxwell! I did know of him, but unintentionally discounted him for other reasons. Oh how I now apologize to the Ghost of this Profound Genius! All Hail James Clark Maxwell, Ipoh whom Modern Science is Truly based!
Upon whom ... not Ipoh!
I knew of Maxwell through the science and engineering texts I read as a child and youth. I always marveled at his work. Still do.
Another great video. Thank you. I am an electrical engineer who knows well Maxwell's equations but knew not so well his story.
The quote at the end is quite touching
My goodness that was well done. You're like a mixture of the most kickass history professor of all time and Paul Harvey. And I'm a broadcaster so you know what that means to me. When I want to learn something new and enjoy a well-crafted yarn, I watch The History Guy.
Another great video... Reminded me of Paul Harvey's closing line... "And now you know the rest of the story!". 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Thank you, Mr. History Guy!!
A truly great man. Thanks for sharing this portrait of a scholar and gentleman.
the history guy deserves to be remembered. Thanks for doing what you do
JCM is the goat. He and many others that followed give me great strength of physics and curiosity. Ty
I studied physics at degree level so appreciate his amazing revolution in our understanding of the forces of nature such as how separate phenomenon like electricity, magnetism and light are all connected.
He was Einstein's hero.
In my view he was second to Einstein followed by Newton.
Great video on history of his life.
Excellent, excellent presentation. Sir, you are getting REALLY good at this! Your next assignment could be Oliver Heaviside, who simplified Maxwell's equations from 20 into 4.
Thank you for introducing me to a new learning resource.
I am always amazed at what I learn following this channel.
Thank you for sharing this snippet of the life of James Clerk Maxwell. I have worked in numerous disciplines that he defined and never knew of it. Early in my career I worked in radar and later in electronic countermeasure but fully dependent on Maxwell's work. I have studied the relationships between electromagnetism and light but no one gave Maxwell credit. Thank you again!
Thank you for doing this video about my great great great grandfather.... Because his name is sort of forgotten... Happy to be a Maxwell,.
Also I would like to say that his son was also an inventor and his son after that my grandfather and he actually patented a lot of products for modern industrial machines.
A physics history video. This is a good day.
Thank you so much for doing such a good job on Maxwell. Very well deserved.
Wow, great vid. Maybe, the best one yet!
Kev Hay I would strongly agree.
Great video. There's a reason that this is my favorite channel on RUclips. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
As a lover of both your channels I hope we see more of this collaboration!!
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So beautifully told. The History Guy Sparks ones imagination to quench the thirst for more information. So Blessed we are knowing you. Stay safe and Healthy as our thirst for History grows with each of your episodes.
Glad to see you took my suggestion to do a video on Maxwell as part of your videos on unknown great scientists. But you didn't quite capture just how fundamental Maxwell's 4 equations of electromagnetism are. Faraday had gone a long way in expanding on our understanding of electricity and magnetism and showing how they are interrelated, but Maxwell's equations pulled together all knowledge of electricity and magnetism and reduced it to 4 equations. And those equations implied that an electromagnetic wave would move at a fixed speed, regardless of the speed of either the source of the wave, or of the observer, which blatantly contradicts "Galilean" relativity, and led to Einstein's relativity.
Excellent as usual. Having studied electronics, and generally a science geek, I knew a bit about Maxwell - mostly regarding electromagnetism - this was a real eye-opener as to the true scope of his genius. Thank you.
Thank you. As an Electronic Engineer, I love science history.
I do so enjoy your videos, the ending sentence of this one was outstanding. Thank you.
This was great information! Thanks, bro!
You keep surprising this historian with more history,so thanks again for a good show.
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Thanks! I enjoyed that, learned a lot!
Thank you for sending this one out history guy I thoroughly appreciated it and I was completely unaware of James Clerk Maxwell I became interested in physics about 10 years ago when I stumbled across the book Dancing Wu Li Masters by Gary zukav👍👍🤜🤛🦅🇺🇸
Absolute wonderful story - indeed you are a genius storyteller - and many physicists will appreciate this remembrance of one our heroes. Thank-you.
Nice! More history of science, please.
@ 10:14, the bronze statue of James Clerk Maxwell on 22-26 George Street in Edinburgh was sculpted by Alexander Stoddart and cast by the Black Isle Bronze Foundry in Nairn, Scotland. Maxwell is shown holding his color top, a spinning disc with sectors of colored paper which he used to investigate the physiology of color vision. A small plaque on the east side of the statue's pedestal shows Maxwell's Four Equations of Electromagnetism.
This is probably my favorite episode.
Great video about a great physicist and mathematician.
Thank you sir. ❤
I was aware of Maxwell, but not the breadth of his work. Thank you History Guy!
What a nice presentation ... thank you! I hope you will cover other scientists ... Hilbert, Schottky, Hertz, etc.
Outstanding!
Thanks for another entertaining presentation.
Beautiful episode!
A man and a mind who's contributions to humanity deserve to be remembered and recognized. Can you imagine what ideas and theories he would have advanced had he lived longer? I don't understand why he and his work isn't discussed in school if only as an introduction to young people who may be inspired to pursue science and physics.
Thanks H.G. 👍🏻✌🏻
beautifully presented!! You honour the great man.