In fact, at the time of Maxwell's death,
his theory of electromagnetic fields was not yet widely accepted or even well known; experts still argued about whether electricity and magnetism propagated their effects via «action at a distance,» as gravity (supposedly) did, or by Michael Faraday's «lines of force» (incorporated by Maxwell into his fields).
Not exact matches
Also, this
theory has been applied to the oscillator
of empty space: oscillators
of electromagnetic field radiation.
In that case, the generalization began with the accepted scientific view regarding the
electromagnetic field of activity pervading space and time, and rose beyond the limits
of that physical
theory to posit the ontological framework which the
theory itself presupposes.
Briefly, Whitehead initially (in works published circa 1919 - 1924) objected to Einstein's formulation
of the
theory of relativity on the grounds that for Einstein the geometry
of the world was variable, its metric being a function
of gravitational and
electromagnetic field variables.
Einstein's formation
of the
theory of relativity states that the geometry
of the world is variable, its metric being a function
of gravitational and
electromagnetic field variables.
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McLuhan saw a hot culture cooling down by the unified
field theories of physics that have their practical application in
electromagnetic communications.
The notion
of an
electromagnetic field propagating in a vacuum is meaningful precisely because it is part
of an elaborate physical
theory which has numerous well - confirmed observable implications.
For his fellowship dissertation on Maxwell's
electromagnetic field theory, 11 as well as his first two scientific publications on special problems
of the hydrodynamics
of incompressible fluids12 testify to an at least open relationship to problems
of mathematical physics.
«One
of the great recent achievements
of modern physics is a quantum
field theory in which weak and
electromagnetic interactions are understood to arise from a common symmetry.
In this model, neutrons and protons are made up
of triplets
of quarks, and the gluons that bind protons and neutrons together (equivalent to photons in
electromagnetic field theory) are made
of pairs
of quarks.
No part
of meteorology has any training or experience with
electromagnetic field theory, or the generation and propagation
of electromagnetic flux in a dispersive media such as Earth's atmosphere.