James Clerk Maxwell · Science
How Maxwell took Faraday’s strange picture of invisible lines filling space and turned it into the central idea of modern physics - the field - replacing instant action-at-a-distance with something real that lives in the space between things.
You learned that Maxwell built on Faraday’s idea that space is filled with lines of force, and made the field - not the charged object - the real seat of electric and magnetic action. In your own words, explain the difference between ‘action at a distance’ and a ‘field’ theory, and why Maxwell…
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