Michael Faraday · Science
Faraday’s greatest conceptual gift: the <em>field</em>. Against ‘action at a distance,’ he held that the space around magnets and charges is filled with real lines of force - and that the physics lives there, in the space between things.
You learned that Faraday rejected action at a distance in favour of lines of force filling the space around magnets and charges - a real, energy-carrying field - and that this became the central idea of modern physics and the gift he handed Maxwell. Explain the field idea and why curved lines of force pointed to its r…
Leads to James Clerk Maxwell.
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