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Maxwell's Equations Were Discovered [video]

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Re: Maxwell's Equations Were Discovered [video]

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Post by dvh »

amelius wrote: post #5
andai wrote: post #4

Video title is How Maxwell's Equations Were Discovered, HN's regex thingy changed it to Maxwell's Equations Were Discovered. (My brain's regex changed it back :)

Isn't it about time HN replaced the regex by AI?

Removing how is stupid. If the "extraneous" how is there, you can still understand it, but when the necessary how is removed, it doesn't make sense or it changes meaning. When I read the title I thought someone is trying to lower the weight of Maxwell's contribution by suggesting he merely discovered them, not "invented" them.

Re: Maxwell's Equations Were Discovered [video]

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Post by bee_rider »

AlexeyBrin wrote: post #6

The original title is much better How Maxwell's Equations Were Discovered . As it is now Maxwell's Equations Were Discovered it sounds like they were just discovered or someone rediscovered the equations.

I expected a philosophical discussion as to whether scientific models are discovered or invented.

Re: Maxwell's Equations Were Discovered [video]

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Post by kayo_20211030 »

Only because it made to the HN front page.

A lot of stilted dialog first. Fine, fine, fine, I get it. Not everyone is a natural presenter.

Then I got to

> How copper and metal plates were combined

and I stopped.

"metal plates"? Copper's not a metal? Some details would be helpful. Zinc maybe?

Re: Maxwell's Equations Were Discovered [video]

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Post by meltyness »

amelius wrote: post #5
andai wrote: post #4

Video title is How Maxwell's Equations Were Discovered, HN's regex thingy changed it to Maxwell's Equations Were Discovered. (My brain's regex changed it back :)

Isn't it about time HN replaced the regex by AI?

I want an AMA on whoever had an army of upvoter bots on early Reddit such that every front page post would have a dictionary typo.

Re: Maxwell's Equations Were Discovered [video]

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Post by blovescoffee »

kayo_20211030 wrote: post #13

Only because it made to the HN front page. A lot of stilted dialog first. Fine, fine, fine, I get it. Not everyone is a natural presenter. Then I got to > How copper and metal plates were combined and I stopped. "metal plates"? Copper's not a metal? Some details would be helpful. Zinc maybe?

I guess I would read this as “copper” as a primary requirement / necessity and some other metal as a secondary requirement. Are you just being pedantic?

Re: Maxwell's Equations Were Discovered [video]

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Post by selimthegrim »

Ono-Sendai wrote: post #17
amelius wrote: post #3

If you like this make sure you watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDlZ-aY9GN4 which explains that magnetism is just an emergent property when you start from Coulomb's law and relativity.

Nah, special relativity is a consequence of magnetism.

That's not how Purcell's textbook put it.
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