What I’d like to know: what did people think Light was before Maxwell showed that it was electromagnetic waves?
Particularly interesting, I think, is that the beginnings of a modern reconciliation of the ancient conflict between Huyghens and Newton emerged from the brilliantly original work of Hamilton on optics, which was essentially complete at the time of Maxwell's birth.
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Hamilton was way too revolutionary for his time... not enough credit for his genius.
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Quantum Field Theory has resuscitated the Lagrangian though because it’s easier to be relativistically invariant.
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Didn’t know about that. Looked it up now.
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