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Another time travel episode but to the 1820s this time. It's interesting to note that both Mari and Waka came at the same time. What I find somewhat interesting about the episode is the European-style setting and simple inventions at the time like the compass.
A better episode this week around with more focus on the historical figure. I knew Faraday was accused of plagiarism while researching, but never expected his relationship with Davy to be that strained. Also Davy's wife is a prude which I guess is the norm at the time.
Mari and Waka warping together reminded me of Bill and Ted, except you know they're cute schoolgirls and not slack jawed metalhead kids.
Hooray! Waka time traveled too, just as I hoped! XD But....SHE CAN'T GET BACK! NOOOOOOOOOO! And evil guy has met Mari's mom! Oh, such a devilish cliffhanger!
Waka finally went with Mari, though it seems too much for the applied phlebotinum machine!
Faraday had a difficult life, but still dug into science as much as he could, and even was able to put on live demonstrations and gain recognition.
This was a very pinnacle episode, both in story and in the fact that Faraday is probably the most important of all the scientists in this series.
The first important message: science and mathematics are not synonymous, nor are they parallel. Mathematics is a paradigm of simulation (creation, artificiality), investigating nature's mechanics is a paradigm of empirical study (experimentation, reality).
Faraday was the one who conceived the first prototype of an electric motor. One of his other most important discoveries was magnetic fields causing lensing effects on light (bending it; yes, gravity does not bend light, magnetism does, quite easily too) known as the Faraday Effect. His principles were the most advanced of all electrical studies, probably until Tesla. His principles worked with the physical geometry and behaviour of electricity and magnetism and was able to understand them as being the same thing.
By far the most important thing Faraday ever did was describe magnetism as the Dielectric Field. From this Tesla was able to work out a model for a rotating magnetic field: analogously like a gyroscope, where the polar fields are in fact not polar (as in North and South), but polarized in direction. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, this is called discharge. Everything behaves this way in nature, without exception. To form the rotating magnetic field, it's as simple as inertial force expanding bi-directionally outward in a hypotrochoidal (spirograph) pattern that follows the golden ratio (aka golden angle), and self reciprocates around and returning on the other side (this is charge). This is the work of Ken Wheeler, who in very recent years finally put a finish to the partially completed dielectric field geometry of Faraday and Tesla, as well as others. (see https://archive.org/download/magnetism1small/magnetism1small.pdf for advanced reading, or just look at the pictures)
Here someone has put together excellently a 3D model of what the dielectric(magnetic) field actually looks like, directly constructed from Ken Wheeler's work.
It is called dielectric, because there are 2 electrical polarized directions, and they behave symmetrically. When it comes to electrical (electromagnetic; compound dielectric and dielectric field) polarization we like to call them + and -, and we can only identify them because they do not behave the same. One of them will exhibit more discharge than charge (explosions, radiation, magnetic repulsion), and the other will charge more than discharge (matter, magnetic attraction, arc electricity).
The truth of reality: all is represented as field behaviour. There are no electrons, or photons, or any sort of quasi-particle, and they have never been proven or discovered. They were merely inserted for the sake of balancing out quantum-mechanical mathematics. I've seen the double slit experiment countless times, and have replicated it myself, you can even do it around a sewing needle, there is no particle behaviour in light, and never was. The effect of the light bending is the same as the Faraday effect. The material volume of mostly any object has a magnetic field around it which bends light due to the inertial forces. You can experience this as easily as putting your finder close to your eye, looking past it at something ant wiggling your finger; also by looking at the silhouette of someone with the sun behind them, you will see a sunlit outline around them, because the light is bending around them. This is nothing more than the Faraday effect, and has nothing to do with quantum which makes up practically all of the mainstream science(pseudoscience) today.
...Nature and science are not hard to understand if you don't get caught up in all of that convoluted crap.
The after credits mentioned the Left Hand Rule (which is really the same as the Right Hand Rule), often referred to as the Lorentz "force" now, is the effect of a rotating field. This is how Faraday's motor even spins. When there is a field polarized in one direction, there is inertial force perpendicular to it; thus the rotating magnetic (dielectric) field. The second experiment is also what lead to the invention of the railgun.
"Team Time Travelers". LOL
That background song when Waka entered the room is nice too. And now the long-awaited "event" finally come. For Mari and Waka to time-travel together. And it seems that Waka is more air-headed than Waka after that travel happened. Is that the effect of the time-travel?
Waka still need some time to get used with this travel thing, but still damn that cliffhanger it's timing is too perfect.
So this time Waka goes to meet the scientist in the past along with Mari. And they meet Faraday, the electromagnetism guy. Faraday wasn't educated which is something quite surprising since I had assumed that most scientists discovering stuff related to physics or whatever would at least know what maths is. Faraday completed the electromagnetism experiment which Sir Davy and his friend failed at. And his thesis got accepted which pissed off Davy because he took it as this illiterate bastard taking credit for something he did. Faraday is trying out stuff even though he isn't as literate as most scientists out there. His lack of acquaintance with maths isn't stopping him. But Davy saying those things to him will probably dishearten him a bit after which he'll find his resolve next week based on the next episode title.
The people after Hayase's experiment don't know what exactly he was doing. They think that he's just transporting stuff from here to there whereas the man is actually doing time travel. The apple came back rotten because it spent some days out in some unknown time period in some unknown land. And now those guys are paying a visit to the Hayase residence.
Lol when Mari told Faraday that she made the kite for Franklin's experiment. A moe girl played such an important role. We also got that bit about the girls' short leg revealing skirts being looked at with disgust. Mrs Davy considered the two girls immoral or whatever for such short skirts. And only one person can be transported at once without the system overloading so one of them was sent back. Now Waka is alone in 19th century London with some illiterate dude who looks hot and plays with electricity and magnets lol.
What I want from this show is more focus on the scientists and their troubles rather than Hayase's troubles with whatever person. The latter part really isn't getting me good while the former is pretty neatly done.
Yeah, people fail to get that math is a tool, but it's irrelevant if what actually happens in nature is different than your equations. He knew what math was, he just didn't know how to do math. Faraday's science didn't invent any unicorns or pixie dust to balance out math, he just played with stuff to see what would happen. If you're interested, we actually have a modern day Faraday, his name is Ken Wheeler.
Just from investigating history, it's clear that the most important inventions come from tinkerers, individuals that fiddle with things and build things. They don't come from acadamia, or herds of peers, they come from individuals like this who gain inspiration. Math comes after to quantify what has been done, and write down the process and measurements.
ReaperCreeper said: The good ol' left hand rule, had to use it all the time in high school.
Really? My highschool just taught idiotic formulas and applications. Just the basic of the basic math, no geometry in orientation, just projectiles, rotating stuff, and how to find amps/volts/watts in a circuit. And a teacher who didn't even comprehend relativistic time dilation. Felt like a waste of time.
Waka takes her trip into the past as God intended her too, but not too the time she wanted. She also has too stay longer than she wanted. Things got serious towards the end there, and I look forward too what happens next. Good episode.
ReaperCreeper said: The good ol' left hand rule, had to use it all the time in high school.
Really? My highschool just taught idiotic formulas and applications. Just the basic of the basic math, no geometry in orientation, just projectiles, rotating stuff, and how to find amps/volts/watts in a circuit. And a teacher who didn't even comprehend relativistic time dilation. Felt like a waste of time.
I would have thought anything involving the left hand rule would fall under the basics.
ReaperCreeper said: The good ol' left hand rule, had to use it all the time in high school.
Really? My highschool just taught idiotic formulas and applications. Just the basic of the basic math, no geometry in orientation, just projectiles, rotating stuff, and how to find amps/volts/watts in a circuit. And a teacher who didn't even comprehend relativistic time dilation. Felt like a waste of time.
I would have thought anything involving the left hand rule would fall under the basics.
It should. Then again, the centrifugal-centripetal geometry of the magnetic field and all fields should be the basics of the basics... Quantum is a joke.
-Trippwire- said: ^^^ Fuck, I'm going for a master's degree in engineering and I still don't get electromagnetism all that well. Not really my field, but still.
Well part of the problem is that the educational system teaches you contradictory and convoluted principles. The issue is that nobody seems to know what magnetism is, not even Quantum Electro-Dynamics. Read my post (#4) to get the introduction to the real explanation, started by Faraday, continued by Maxwell and Tesla, and recently finished by Ken Wheeler.
Once again, it was a very interesting episode. It's nice that the two girls traveled together, but Waka needs to accept that there are some differences between the two worlds ^^
So this time Waka is here in the time travel adventure, meeting Farady and turns out he was accused of plagiarism by Davy, but too bad we couldn't see how it went because Mari got TPed back in present time but Waka didn't, now it's gonna create even more problems