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Newton, Maxwell, Einstein

What Were They Thinking?

by Edmond Brown

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Newton, Maxwell, Einstein

What Were They Thinking?

by Edmond Brown

Published Oct 15, 2015
275 Pages
Genre: SCIENCE / Physics / General



 

Book Details

Light: Wave Or Particle? Maybe Both.

Newton rejected Huygens’ wave theory of light. How can a wave propagate through empty space? Maxwell showed that light was an electromagnetic wave. There must be some medium. Why couldn’t the medium be found? Was it moving with respect to us? Good theories create as many questions as they answer. Einstein’s theories answered these questions but raised others.

 

About the Author

Edmond Brown

Edmond Brown obtained his doctorate in Theoretical Physics from Cornell University in 1954, after studying under Nobelists Richard Feynman and Hans Bethe. He served as a physics professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for forty years. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

 

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