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Bonus: Damon Binder on Economic History and the Future of Physics
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Maxwell's Equations - The Speed of Light
Maxwell's equations predict that light will exist. It predicts they'll travel at a fixed speed. Took people a while to notice this, but eventually people kind of weird it out. The way to fix it would be to say there is like an ether and Maxwell's equations are only holds for one observer sitting still in the ether. Others observers will not see Maxwell's equations.
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