/sci/ - Science & Math

>>14679977
they nearly declared independence from the UK like a year or two ago. imagine the future of Scotland if they could rule themselves.

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>>12184369
Maxwell is the true biggest underrated scientist in history. It is criminal how little recognition he gets in the mainstream.

>>10468297
>Why does the Universe have a speed limit?
It's the only way to make Maxwell's equations work right in all inertial frames of reference.

>Is it a restriction of the simulation?
If the universe is a simulation, the "computer" it's running on is WAY different than anything we've ever conceived in the way of computer hardware, so there wouldn't be one human being on Earth qualified to answer this question.

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>>8974048
This. Today's world is based on Maxwell's work with electromagnetism and thermodynamics. Gotta have that electric energy generation for a lot of our majors to even be relevant. Also, Einstein based his work in relativity on Maxwell's equations, so Maxwell is definitely up there.

where can I dive into the work of Maxwell ?
(literally everything he did)

Why / how did we learn to science?

What use is vector calculus to some primitive ape whose basic aim in life is to have sex and not die? Where's the evolutionary advantage?

How did we go from 200,000 years of nothing, to suddenly the year 1865 and this dude comes along. He does some abstract shit that doesn't affect the layman at all. Radio waves are discovered. Light is a step closer to being understood. With Electromagnetism we have peered into the abyss.

A mere 100 years later ( only 5 generations ) and in 1965 we look back on 1865 as being the dark ages. They knew nothing in comparison to 1965. 80% of what they thought they knew was wrong.

Now a mere 50 years down the line ( a couple of generations, probably around the time your parents were born ) we consider the state of affairs in 1965 to be extremely primitive. They had none of our modern technology.

Where the fuck did this come from? Where is it headed? Have these chains of events been in motion ever since the ancients toyed with basic mathematics? Or was this a recent Western invention? Does it all come back to the Industrial Revolution?