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Not just a Scot, a Galloway Scot, his home and his grave are close to where I am.
Visitors come from all over the world, and - when they manage to find it at all -
are astonished how modest it is. Compare Isaac Newton in Westminster Abbey!

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Eulalia said:
Not just a Scot, a Galloway Scot, his home and his grave are close to where I am.
Visitors come from all over the world, and - when they manage to find it at all -
are astonished how modest it is. Compare Isaac Newton in Westminster Abbey!

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Maxwell - one of the greatest scientists. Forever famous for his insights to electrodynamics - and lots of other things.

Thanks for posting this.

(Whatever a Galloway Scot my be?)
 
geolier said:
Maxwell - one of the greatest scientists. Forever famous for his insights to electrodynamics - and lots of other things.

Thanks for posting this.

(Whatever a Galloway Scot my be?)
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Not to take anything away for Maxwell, but "his" four equations were really a distillation of his work by Oliver Heaviside. Heaviside basically made them more concise. It is also worth pointing out that those equations treat the speed of light in a vacuum as a constant of nature. That is the basis o f Einstein's special relativity--how the speed of light could remain constant in each of two "reference frames" (a moving train and the "stationary" countryside, say) traveling at a given velocity relative to each other was the problem that special relativity solved (Lorentz had done some work on it, but it was Einstein using Maxwell who made it come from physics and not by an ad hoc mathematical fix).

Another of his seminal contributions was his "demon". The Second Law of Thermodynamics in one form says that one cannot transfer heat from a colder to a hotter body without doing any work (there is no perfectly efficient engine--there is always some energy that is wasted in doing work). Maxwell proposed that there might be a demon who would sit at the partition between two chambers filled with gas, and operate a small, infinitely light door to let only hot molecules (ones moving at a speed above a certain threshhold) through the partition. This would violate the Second Law, since the work done would become vanishingly small. People noodled about this for years, and it was only laid to rest in the 1980's by a guy named Landauer working at IBM. You have to be good to pose a problem that takes more than a century to solve.
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Eulalia said:
Not just a Scot, a Galloway Scot
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geolier said:
(Whatever a Galloway Scot may be?)
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Eulalia said:
https://must-see-scotland.com/where-is-galloway
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Lord, Geoliar! Don't get her started:eek:! Underneath that submissive intellectual facade, @Eulalia is a fanatic Galloway chauvinist:mad:! Listen to her and all the brightest thinkers in the world came from Scotland and half of those from little Galloway:facepalm:! Please, please! My head is already aching! :doh:
 
"...all the brightest thinkers in the world came from Scotland ..."
Yes, that's a given. Was there something else?

(Serieusement, the trick to understanding the Scots, Galloway or Highlanders,
is that they are forever condemned to do the right thing for the wrong reasons
or the wrong for the right reasons.
No Scot yet to draw breath ever did the right thing for the right reasons.)
 
sympazero2 said:
"...all the brightest thinkers in the world came from Scotland ..."
Yes, that's a given. Was there something else?

(Serieusement, the trick to understanding the Scots, Galloway or Highlanders,
is that they are forever condemned to do the right thing for the wrong reasons
or the wrong for the right reasons.
No Scot yet to draw breath ever did the right thing for the right reasons.)
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A little obscure, but profound.:):confused::cool:
 
sympazero2 said:
"...all the brightest thinkers in the world came from Scotland ..."
Yes, that's a given. Was there something else?

(Serieusement, the trick to understanding the Scots, Galloway or Highlanders,
is that they are forever condemned to do the right thing for the wrong reasons
or the wrong for the right reasons.
No Scot yet to draw breath ever did the right thing for the right reasons.)
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A bit harsh, isn’t it? ;)
 
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