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In the third study group on the Evolution of Physics, LPPFusion’s Eric Lerner and the group discuss the efforts by James Clerk Maxwell and others to use vortices to unite the newly-developed concept of fields with the observations of particles, especially atoms. These efforts encountered difficulties and then were superseded with J. J. Thompson’s surprising discovery of the electron, a particle thousands of times less massive than atoms.
Readings for this study group:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsta.2018.0451
https://web.lemoyne.edu/~giunta/ea/THOMSONann.HTML
In the third study group on the Evolution of Physics, LPPFusion’s Eric Lerner and the group discuss the efforts by James Clerk Maxwell and others to use vortices to unite the newly-developed concept of fields with the observations of particles, especially atoms. These efforts encountered difficulties and then were superseded with J. J. Thompson’s surprising discovery of the electron, a particle thousands of times less massive than atoms.
Readings for this study group:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsta.2018.0451
https://web.lemoyne.edu/~giunta/ea/THOMSONann.HTML
