Faraday proposed that magnets act through invisible 'lines of force' or fields filling the space around them—a concept that was initially dismissed by mathematical physicists as poetic rather than rigorous, since Faraday could not defend it with mathematical equations.
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“he pictured invisible lines coming out of the magnet. Lines of force, filling the space all around it...the proper mathematical physicists of the day thought this was adorable, and frankly, a little embarrassing.”
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