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John David Jackson, [U Calif. Berkeley and Visiting
Professor at Trinity College, Cambridge], "Classical
Electrodynamics" 3rd edn., pub. Wiley 1999. |
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Ed. Stuart G. Shanker, Philosophy of Science, Logic and Mathematics in the Twentieth
Century, pub. Routledge 1996, p391; [Glossary of terms]
"electromagnetism - …. the final form of the theory was devised by
MAXWELL and is one of the triumph[s] of the nineteenth century science." This
assertion, that electromagnetic theory was complete in around 1900 and could
not be improved upon, is frequently repeated, (for instance, as
far as I remember, by Solymar and Ash). Since Heaviside (1850 - 1925) was given the first Faraday Medal and
has never been repudiated by anyone in the Establishment, it is tragic that
so many of his concepts, including that of energy
current, have disappeared. They are now not known to a single
Professor of Electrical Engineering or a single text book writer in the
world. Their grasp of the Transverse
Electromagnetic Wave
diminishes every decade, even though it is the basic intellectual building
block for digital electronics. - Ivor Catt, 31dec01 |
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Scandals in
Electromagnetic Theory @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ "From a long view of the history of mankind – seen from, say,
ten thousand years from now – there can be little doubt that the most
significant event of the 19th century will be judged as Maxwell’s discovery
of the laws of electrodynamics. The American Civil War will pale into
provincial insignificance in comparison with this important scientific event
of the same decade." – R.P. Feynman, R.B. Leighton, and M. Sands, Feynman Lectures on Physics, vol. 2,
Addison-Wesley, London, 1964, c. 1, p. 11. Oops! – Ivor apr03 It gets worse; “The special theory of
relativity owes its origin to Maxwell’s equations of the electromagnetic
field.” Einstein quoted in Schilpp, P A, “Albert Einstein, Philosopher –
Scientist,” Library of Living Philosophers, 1949, p62. - Ivor may03 |