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Faraday Idea #1

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Faraday Idea #1 — pen and ink drawing by Daniel Ari Friedman. "I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be." – Diogenes of Sinope "Electromagnetic fields... are neith
Faraday Idea #1 — pen and ink drawing

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"I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be." – Diogenes of Sinope

"Electromagnetic fields... are neither charged nor magnetized and thus cannot contribute to their own source. The general theory does reveal a new feature of electromagnetic fields... Since they have energy, they produce gravitational effects and thus affect the structure of space-time, which, in turn, means that an electromagnetic field can affect the motion of non-charged matter." – Nancy Nersessian, "Faraday to Einstein: Constructing Meaning in Scientific Theories" (1984).

"First, the physicists in the persons of Faraday and Maxwell, proposed the "electromagnetic field" in contradistinction to matter, as a…

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