So darkly complex, so fabulously remote from the familiar things of human existence is science’s probing into the fundamental secretae of the universe—of light, electricity, gravity, matter—that the ...

In 1865 James Clerk Maxwell (1831 - 1879) published this work, "A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field" demonstrating that electric and magnetic fields travel through space as waves moving at ...

One hundred and fifty years ago this month, the 30-year-old James Clerk Maxwell published the first part of an extraordinary document: On Physical Lines of Force, a paper on the mathematical physics ...

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Light plays a vital role in our everyday lives and technologies based on light are all around us. So we might expect that our understanding of light is pretty settled. But scientists have just ...

IN spite of the great progress made in recent years, the theory of radiation is still in rather an unsatisfactory state. By the methods of Schrödinger it is possible to express the radiation of atoms ...