If Maxwell's equations were a piece of hardware, most of us would be eager to see what's inside the box. But you won't find the literary equivalent of a physical teardown because the subject is ...

Maxwell's radical new theory, formally published the following year, was expansive and was only later condensed into the four now-famous equations by one of his followers. Nevertheless, it is right ...

The physical nature of light is an intriguing scientific mystery as it behaves like a wave in free space and as a particle when it interacts with matter. The theoretical work on light as an ...