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The Greatest Scot (In My Opinion)
16 years ago
"I will not die until I achieve something. Even though the ideal is high, I never give in. Therefore, I never die with regrets."
So, another list has come to the shores of the UK and all British people are crazy about lists. But this is to do with one country only, unlike the list several years back of The Greatest Briton.
http://scotland.stv.tv/greatest-scot/ - The Greatest Scot. Out of 800 years of Scottish history, 35 have been nominated from science, sport, literature, philosophy, cinema and industry.
There's many on the list who deserve the great title but I want to tell you about one person I believe deserves it. James Clerk Maxwell.
Now some of you are wondering who the hell is Maxwell? Well, he was a physicist and mathematician from Edinburgh, largely known for his research into electromagnetism.
Everyone at the time knew about electricity and magnets, but he combined the two and became the first person to estimate a disturbingly accurate number for the speed of light. He also was the founder on the beginning of ideas such as quantum mechanics.
But the big thing this guy is so underrated for? He discovered radio waves.
With his equations he managed to theorise and prove the existence of electromagnetic waves in the air which were then later to inspire the radio...which lead to the television....which lead to the global network of satellites for television....which lead to THE INTERNET.
This man invented the entire fucking modern age, and yet almost nobody remembers his name! We all know John Logie Baird who invented the television (and even the first colour TV, video disc recorder and EVEN high-definition TV), but without Maxwell, there'd not have been ideas into this.
John Logie Baird described television first as "seeing wireless", but without Maxwell, you'd not even have wireless since you need radio waves to work a damn radio.
Maybe someone further down the line could have figured it out, maybe Marconi might have stumbled upon it, but Maxwell found it.
Albert Einstein himself even said that "a new age had begun with Maxwell".
Big praise from him. And that is my nomination for the Greatest Scot.
There's the men who shaped my country such as Robert the Bruce and William Wallace, there's the inventor of television, there's the man who made Sherlock Holmes, there's even Andrew Carnegie and John Muir who are even considered two of the greatest Americans, the former for his amazing philanthropy and the latter for being the father of protecting the environment.
But this age we live in, the reason I can tell you all this, the reason we have all this magnificent artwork and stories before our very eyes on this website on this internet, the reason so many people have connected with each other continents apart....began with James Clerk Maxwell.
http://scotland.stv.tv/greatest-scot/ - The Greatest Scot. Out of 800 years of Scottish history, 35 have been nominated from science, sport, literature, philosophy, cinema and industry.
There's many on the list who deserve the great title but I want to tell you about one person I believe deserves it. James Clerk Maxwell.
Now some of you are wondering who the hell is Maxwell? Well, he was a physicist and mathematician from Edinburgh, largely known for his research into electromagnetism.
Everyone at the time knew about electricity and magnets, but he combined the two and became the first person to estimate a disturbingly accurate number for the speed of light. He also was the founder on the beginning of ideas such as quantum mechanics.
But the big thing this guy is so underrated for? He discovered radio waves.
With his equations he managed to theorise and prove the existence of electromagnetic waves in the air which were then later to inspire the radio...which lead to the television....which lead to the global network of satellites for television....which lead to THE INTERNET.
This man invented the entire fucking modern age, and yet almost nobody remembers his name! We all know John Logie Baird who invented the television (and even the first colour TV, video disc recorder and EVEN high-definition TV), but without Maxwell, there'd not have been ideas into this.
John Logie Baird described television first as "seeing wireless", but without Maxwell, you'd not even have wireless since you need radio waves to work a damn radio.
Maybe someone further down the line could have figured it out, maybe Marconi might have stumbled upon it, but Maxwell found it.
Albert Einstein himself even said that "a new age had begun with Maxwell".
Big praise from him. And that is my nomination for the Greatest Scot.
There's the men who shaped my country such as Robert the Bruce and William Wallace, there's the inventor of television, there's the man who made Sherlock Holmes, there's even Andrew Carnegie and John Muir who are even considered two of the greatest Americans, the former for his amazing philanthropy and the latter for being the father of protecting the environment.
But this age we live in, the reason I can tell you all this, the reason we have all this magnificent artwork and stories before our very eyes on this website on this internet, the reason so many people have connected with each other continents apart....began with James Clerk Maxwell.
No, wait, he just said "Great Scott!"