When we think of our origin story — the origin of everything in the Universe — many of us think of, “let there be light!” This is true whether you consider the Big Bang origins of our Universe or the biblical stories we’ve told for thousands of years, yet few of us pause to consider what the phenomenon of light actually is.
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We take for granted, today, that it’s an electromagnetic wave, yet this was only determined by James Clerk Maxwell in 1865: exactly 150 years ago. A few decades later, the first trans-Atlantic radio transmission took place, turning this theoretical novelty into one of the most powerful technological tools ever developed.
Image credit: Courtesy of Encyclopedia Britannica.
The science of unification wave born 150 years ago; come and celebrate the story — and the genius — of Maxwell!
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When we think of our origin story — the origin of everything in the Universe — many of us think of, “let there be light!” This is true whether you consider the Big Bang origins of our Universe or the biblical stories we’ve told for thousands of years, yet few of us pause to consider what the phenomenon of light actually is.
Image credit: Wikimedia Commons user Lookang.
We take for granted, today, that it’s an electromagnetic wave, yet this was only determined by James Clerk Maxwell in 1865: exactly 150 years ago. A few decades later, the first trans-Atlantic radio transmission took place, turning this theoretical novelty into one of the most powerful technological tools ever developed.
Image credit: Courtesy of Encyclopedia Britannica.
The science of unification wave born 150 years ago; come and celebrate the story — and the genius — of Maxwell!
from ScienceBlogs http://ift.tt/1itXpwj
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