{"id":1159,"date":"2008-12-26T07:53:32","date_gmt":"2008-12-26T12:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=1159"},"modified":"2008-12-26T07:53:32","modified_gmt":"2008-12-26T12:53:32","slug":"it-was-a-dark-and-stormy-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1159","title":{"rendered":"It Was a Dark and Stormy Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/skullsinthestars.com\/2008\/12\/25\/mr-faradays-most-excellent-experimental-researches-in-electricity-1831\/\">Mr. Faraday\u2019s (most excellent) experimental researches in electricity (1831)<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I started to investigate Faraday\u2019s writings while working on a post about Edward Bulwer-Lytton\u2019s novel The Coming Race, which quotes Faraday to justify B-L\u2019s fictional source of energy, vril.  This led me back through Faraday\u2019s monumental collection of researches on electricity, a collection of over 25 articles published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society under the blanket title, \u201cExperimental researches in electricity.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Faraday is also appearing at <a href=\"http:\/\/twistedphysics.typepad.com\/cocktail_party_physics\/2008\/12\/a-gift-that-keeps-on-giving.html\">Cocktail Party Physics<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;ve always had a soft spot for Michael Faraday, for any number of reasons, but one of those reasons is that he was a brilliant experimentalist with world-class instincts for investigating the behavior of this strange new phenomenon, and yet he possessed only rudimentary mathematical skills &#8212; something that hampered the broad acceptance of his concept of how electromagnetism worked.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Faraday\u2019s (most excellent) experimental researches in electricity (1831) I started to investigate Faraday\u2019s writings while working on a post about Edward Bulwer-Lytton\u2019s novel The Coming Race, which quotes Faraday to justify B-L\u2019s fictional source of energy, vril. This led &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1159\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,21,39],"tags":[211],"class_list":["post-1159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experiments","category-history","category-physics","tag-faraday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}