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To: quantim

Einstein regarded James Clerk Maxwell as perhaps the greatest mind.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell


16 posted on 09/29/2005 7:52:18 PM PDT by spinestein (Forget the Golden Rule. Remember the Brazen Rule.)
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To: spinestein
And God said...

ò E.dA = q/e0

ò B.dA = 0 

ò E.ds = -d/dt(ò B.dA) 

ò B.ds = m 0ò j.dA,

...and there was light.

17 posted on 09/29/2005 8:09:43 PM PDT by Professional Engineer (See my book, "Percussive Maintenance For Dummies")
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To: spinestein

Einstein had Newton's work to go on. Newton INVENTED calculus, did he not? I could hardly understand it when I was taught it, but to invent it?!?! I think it would be a toss up between Newton and da Vinci. The problem is that they both contributed in such different areas that they complimented each other.


19 posted on 09/29/2005 8:16:03 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.Walt Meier, of NSIDC, said: "Having four years in a ro)
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To: spinestein

He was still two centuries behind Newton, but Maxwell is as smart as they get.


20 posted on 09/29/2005 8:16:56 PM PDT by quantim (Detroit is the New Orleans of the North as an example of a failed welfare state.)
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To: spinestein

the quote says "since Newton" so one assumes he's place Newton, then Maxwell.


34 posted on 09/29/2005 9:34:30 PM PDT by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them, or they like us?)
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