In our approach, optimal metrics are required to be harmonic, which gives nonlinear field equations for the electromagnetic potentials and Maxwell's equations as a special linear case.

Clothing electrical phenomena in mathematical language, Maxwell discovered electromagnetic waves by inventing them out of his own head. He then correlated electromagnetic waves and light waves.

This article was originally published with the title “Explanation of the Maxwell Electromagnetic Theory of Light” in SA Supplements Vol. 21 No. 538supp (April 1886), p. 8591 doi:10.1038 ...

Maxwell’s electromagnetic theory unified electricity and magnetism, providing the ultimate description of electromagnetic waves, including light, and anticipating relativity and the field theories ...

The many colours of visible light just part of a wider spectrum of electromagnetic waves. Flickr/final gather, CC BY-ND In 1888, nearly 25 years after Maxwell’s theory was published, the German ...

Forbes and Mahon provide an engaging biography of the electromagnetic field in the form of two sub-biographies of Faraday and Maxwell, and a brief chapter on the Maxwellians.

In Maxwell’s theory, light is an electromagnetic wave. This means it travels as a synchronised oscillation of electric and magnetic fields.

The particle was now the king of the scientific universe, and it would reign for another 150 years until Scottish scientist James Clerk Maxwell introduced electromagnetic waves to the equation.

DR. CURRY bases his work, which is almost entirely analytical, on Maxwell's equations of the electromagnetic field. These equations suffice to account for the phenomena of electromagnetism, and ...