The story of the light ray bending in an accelerating elevator is quintessential Einstein. But it took him nearly a quarter century before settling on this analogy.| Galileo Unbound
The displacement current was Maxwell's stroke of genius that led ultimately to the completion of his equations. Yet he envisioned it as a displacement effected by cogs and gears of the ether in the grand mechanical tradition of Victorian science.| Galileo Unbound
Most of the universe may not be what we think it is.| Galileo Unbound