Maxwell's iconic line: light consists of transverse undulations of the EM medium
JosephJacks_ · x · 2026-11-15
A repost of James Clerk Maxwell's famous 1860s inference: "We can scarcely avoid the inference that light consists in the transverse undulations of the same medium which is the cause of electric and magnetic phenomena" — the insight that identified light with electromagnetic waves.
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