The physical nature of light is an intriguing scientific mystery as it behaves like a wave in free space and as a particle ...

Are equations beautiful? To scientists, formulas' ability to represent fundamental truths or concisely capture complexity is indeed exquisite. To many in the public, though, they can be the ...

Our choice of Maxwell’s equations In this story, and in his latest book, 17 Equations that Changed the World, Ian Stewart uses Maxwell’s equation for electromagnetic waves propagating in a ...

Quantum mechanics has a reputation that precedes it. Virtually everyone who has bumped up against the quantum realm, whether ...

Newfound solutions to Maxwell’s electromagnetism equations show light can get as tangled as a sailor’s rope ...

Abstract On the basis of the Dirac equation, a relativistic interaction Hamiltonian is derived which linearly couples the angular momentum density j of the electromagnetic (EM) field and the ...

String theory has long been presented as physicists' best candidate for describing the fundamental nature of the Universe. Yet, at the beginning of the 21st century, it became apparent that ...

This led the team to suggest that metamaterials could perform mathematical operations on these functions. Integral equations Now, Engheta and colleagues have designed a metamaterial that not only ...

Therefore, wondering what our life would be without Maxwell's equations means to try to envision our life without most of current science, communications and technology. On large (macro) scales ...