Ampere's forgotten law
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jet_noise said:
Hardest my brain has worked in a while watching that!
Interesting the parallel same-polarity coils attracting rather than repelling.
I should have put a warning, not a simple watch, Interesting the parallel same-polarity coils attracting rather than repelling.
The comments section got me some very knowledgeable people struggling with the concept perhaps because of the way they have been taught.
Scarletpimpofnel said:
It always amazes me that people fathomed these things out 200 years ago.
For example Maxwell and his equations.
I’d happily state the that James Clark Maxwell did the most important bit of thinking that almost nobody knows about. For example Maxwell and his equations.
Everyone can parrot E=mc^2. Outside of correction of gps, it doesn’t have a lot of impact day to day.
Maxwells electromag work underpins modern life entirely.
Instantaneous action at a distance... It'll be chat of luminiferous aether before you can say "absolute b
ks". He is trying to hammer together different concepts, talking about static models, then wondering why they don't explain dynamics.
I had to stop before the end of that. Having slipped in a sales advert for a big expensive book with some mysterious hidden thing, he starts to wrap up by making a big thing about how the entire universe (oooo!) may be interlinked and cause blah blah (oh and look at my pretty picture of the universe). Something which basic gravity and EM field inverse square law cover. Then going on to say it may be some gigantic machine. Like some late night programme you get on the outer digital channels, with incomplete and unlinked facts.
Next thing you know, he'll be talking about other "forgotten secrets" which aren't secret in any way, then swiftly on to pyramids, aliens and poltergeists.
By the way, Maxwell's works are surprisingly understandable to start with, but do kinda shoot up a cliff face of difficulty.
https://archive.org/details/electricandmagne01maxw...
ks". He is trying to hammer together different concepts, talking about static models, then wondering why they don't explain dynamics.I had to stop before the end of that. Having slipped in a sales advert for a big expensive book with some mysterious hidden thing, he starts to wrap up by making a big thing about how the entire universe (oooo!) may be interlinked and cause blah blah (oh and look at my pretty picture of the universe). Something which basic gravity and EM field inverse square law cover. Then going on to say it may be some gigantic machine. Like some late night programme you get on the outer digital channels, with incomplete and unlinked facts.
Next thing you know, he'll be talking about other "forgotten secrets" which aren't secret in any way, then swiftly on to pyramids, aliens and poltergeists.
By the way, Maxwell's works are surprisingly understandable to start with, but do kinda shoot up a cliff face of difficulty.
https://archive.org/details/electricandmagne01maxw...
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