I will not stand for this Planck erasure! Sure, Einstein and Maxwell are great, but how can you leave off the father of quantum mechanics when a third of the poster is a direct result of his research?
Dark matter is just the friends we made along the way.
Who would win? All the physicists or one slitty boi?
Cosmology and astrophysics are considered classical? I would expect both quantum physics and relativity to play a major role nowadays.
damn you doing philosophy dirty
Science has always been wrong, converging towards the truth. The scientific method is based on this. It is not the first, nor the last time, that a scientist has to throw years or even centuries of research into the trash, silently retiring in tears. Precisely now with the discoveries of Jame Webb it is becoming increasingly evident that the standard model, the BigBang as understood until now and the expansion, among other things, are no longer valid as such…
Very cool poster, thanks!
Naïve question: Is there a reason why electric and magnetic fields look so similar?
edit: in assuming it’s something to do with direction / polarity?
They’re similar in some respects, different in others; this happens to only show ways they’re similar. Specifically, it only shows dipole (two-pole) fields, with the field lines running from one pole (North or +) to the other (South or -).
But there are also electric monopoles: things that’re only + (e.g. protons) or - (e.g. electrons), which’ll have field lines radiating out in all directions rather than looping back. Magnets are different in that as far as we know, magnetic monopoles don’t exist. Every North pole’s directly attached to a South pole and vice versa. You can get magnets with more than two poles, or even more complex arrangements (e.g. refrigerator magnets normally have alternating North and South stripes), but they’ll always have equal amounts of Northness and Southness, so the net magnetic charge is always zero.
Another (related) difference is that moving electric charges (e.g. electric currents in a wire) create loops of magnetic field. That is, the field line just goes in a circle around the moving charge, rather than from N to S. Since there’s no such thing (as far as we know) as a magnetic charge, that can’t happen with the electric field.
Wow, that’s really interesting - thanks!
