And yet Michael Faraday’s experimental style set things up for James Maxwell’s famous differential equations. Which was important. Because it gave mathematical relationship to the way electric charges and magnetic fields work. Stuff you couldn’t even see. But the effects of which you could observe.
Why am I writing about this? I have a talk on Thursday called Fuzzy Quantum Pop. I’ll talk about the way we look at things, and how it’s really our perceptions that make up our “reality.” I think people get so caught up in “right” and “wrong,” and “truth” or “nontruth.” They forget that things change around when we just observe differently. Something to think about.
