Maxwell's Equations Were Discovered [video]

andai•about 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•about 1 hour ago

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

dvh•1 minute 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•40 minutes ago

oh oh

amelius•34 minutes ago

amelius•about 2 hours 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•about 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.

Ono-Sendai•about 2 hours 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•about 1 hour ago

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

ck2•39 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

Maxwell's Equations Were Discovered [video]

⚡ Community Insights

Discussion (10 Comments)Read Original on HackerNews