RE: What did Lorentz and Zeeman do to win the Nobel Prize for physics in 1902?

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That is a great article. I enjoyed reading it. I have two side remarks (just to trigger discussions):

  1. The particle physicist in me like to unify all Maxwell equations in one, or actually 2 (this is where special relativity helps). Unification can indeed be pushed even further (that is a kind of a grail to reach today).
  2. If we symmetrise Maxwell equations in the two fields, we end up with magnetic monopoles. Those are still searched for today (and not found, which is a good news as this would mean we should generalise Maxwell's equations).

Cheers!

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Thanks... :)

Taking the two equations /Ampere / Gauss) and generalizing them and then working with quadrivectors and contravariant tensors for me is crazy, I'm not Benjamin Fucks or Sheldon Cooper hahaha I better stick to my experimental physics hahaha

Do you think you can discover the asymmetry in the magnets? This would give a complete turn to physics and reformulate the law of Gauss and Lorentz force.. or do you not want that to happen? @lemouth

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I am not "Benjamin Fucks" myself too... I have one less 'c' :D

I would be happy with anything that changes our vision of the world, TBH ^^

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Sorry hehe would be fantastic to reformulate the Maxwell equations :D

Although maybe Maxwell wouldn't be too happy :P

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I think that he won't care... at least anymore ;)

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