Fields—The Immaterial Becomes Real

Faraday's introduction of fields as elements of physical reality in the 19th century was a giant step for modern science. But the difficulty of formulating a plausible physical mechanism for how fields work led to Maxwell's equations of electrodynamics-and a view of scientific theories as capturing our experience of a process, rather than a final truth about objects.

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  • Originally Aired January 1, 2008
  • Runtime 30 minutes
  • Content Rating United States of America TV-G
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