RE: Ask a theoretical physicist turned teacher, lecturer and author
July 18, 2017 at 5:49 pm
(This post was last modified: July 18, 2017 at 5:59 pm by Alex K.)
(July 18, 2017 at 5:43 pm)Khemikal Wrote: If you had to point to someone as the next Maxwell, who would it be?
Great question. For the analogy to work, we are looking for someone who worked on unified field equations of some sort (in Maxwell's case, he unified the electric and magnetic effects and predicted the existence of EM waves), but also did pioneering work in other fields of physics (in Maxwell's case, statistical physics). Steve Weinberg comes to mind as the best candidate. He unified (more or less, a pet peeve I won't go into here) the electromagnetic and weak force and predicted the Z boson, and he is very active in cosmology.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
