On March 3rd, 2024, I gave a talk entitled “The Replacement of Continental Science in the Nineteenth Century.” It was presented to the Rising Tide Foundation.
I absolutely loved this presentation and the discussion afterwards. This is the precise problem that science faces right now and the reasons behind it. Great work John!
Hi Tim, thanks for the links. I did note in Footnote 1 (p.34) of "The Significance of the 1845 Gauss-Weber Correspondence":
"The mathematical development of Ampère’s hypothesis, of a force acting along the straight line connecting two elements, and certain uncritical references to Newton found in the opening pages of his 1826 Memoir, have emboldened some interpreters, Maxwell included, to falsely presume Ampère to be a Newtonian."
I really don't know how Laurence Hecht deduced that Ampère was not a Newtonian, when he explicitly claimed to be one. Here is Ampère writing to Paul Erman in 1823 [AKT Assis and JPMC Chaib, Ampere's Electrodynamics, Montreal: Apeiron, 2015, p.255]:
"Newtonian physics explains all celestial phenomena by an attraction directed along the straight line connecting the two interacting particles and the motion is a complicated result of this attraction. As regards the new [electromagnetic and electrodynamic] phenomena I make what Newton has done for celestial motions,[namely,] I explain them by attractive and repulsive forces."
I absolutely loved this presentation and the discussion afterwards. This is the precise problem that science faces right now and the reasons behind it. Great work John!
Mine is the first view on YouTube?
Folks are missing out!
Hi Tim, I am not sure what coercive measures Laurence Hecht was referring to. Do you have a link?
Hi Tim, thanks for the links. I did note in Footnote 1 (p.34) of "The Significance of the 1845 Gauss-Weber Correspondence":
"The mathematical development of Ampère’s hypothesis, of a force acting along the straight line connecting two elements, and certain uncritical references to Newton found in the opening pages of his 1826 Memoir, have emboldened some interpreters, Maxwell included, to falsely presume Ampère to be a Newtonian."
I really don't know how Laurence Hecht deduced that Ampère was not a Newtonian, when he explicitly claimed to be one. Here is Ampère writing to Paul Erman in 1823 [AKT Assis and JPMC Chaib, Ampere's Electrodynamics, Montreal: Apeiron, 2015, p.255]:
"Newtonian physics explains all celestial phenomena by an attraction directed along the straight line connecting the two interacting particles and the motion is a complicated result of this attraction. As regards the new [electromagnetic and electrodynamic] phenomena I make what Newton has done for celestial motions,[namely,] I explain them by attractive and repulsive forces."
Wal Thornhill, among others, proposed that the "aether particles" are neutrinos. The idea merits further study.