Automated Rediscovery of the Maxwell Equations
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Abstract
There is sufficient information in the far-field of a radiating dipole antenna to rediscover the Maxwell Equations and the wave equations of light, including the speed of light c . We created TheoSea, a Julia program that does this in a few seconds, and the key insight is that the compactness of theories drives the search. The program is a computational embodiment of the scientific method: observation, consideration of candidate theories, and validation.
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Research context
OpenAlex topics: Computational Physics and Python Applications · Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems · Scientific Computing and Data Management
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Affiliations
California Institute of Technology, 1200 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Minerva Schools at KGI, 1145 Market St., San Francisco, CA 94103, USA
Funding
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
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