re: #381 wheat-dogg
But even Maxwell was not entirely aware what his equations implied, AFAIK. Thatās how embedded the aether concept was in physics back then. Maxwell believed his equations were entirely consistent with Newtonian mechanics.
[Actually, of the four equations, Maxwell only created one equation and modified one of the three that others had already derived. But as a group they are called Maxwellās equations because he put them all together in one neat little package.]
Well, not so neat. Remember in his formulation there were 12 equations. We owe the four vector equations and the popularization of Maxwellās theory to Oliver Heavisideāa much underappreciated man, IMO.