...saying " it is extremely improbable that when we come to understand * I., 375—386. VOL. CXXV. 3D the true nature of electrolysis we shall retain in...obtained a secure basis on which to form a true theory of electric-currents and so become independent of these provisional hypotheses." Confronted, in other...

...charges — he uses the expression molecular in the sense that the chemist uses the term atomic — may serve as a method by which we may remember a good...to form a true theory of electric currents, and so ibecome independent of these provisional theories." And later (p. 315) : " While electrolysis fully...

...charges — he uses the expression molecular in the sense that the chemist uses the term atomic — may serve as a method by which we may remember a good...come to understand the true nature of electrolysis \ve shall retain in any form the theory of molecular charges, for then we shall have obtained a secure...

...electrolysis and a knowledge of Faraday's laws. But Maxwell went on, after a few more paragraphs : — " It is extremely improbable that when we come to understand...become independent of these provisional theories." It is rash to predict what may ultimately happen, but the present state of electrical science seems...

...of electrolysis and a knowledge of araday-s laws. But Maxwell went on, after a few more paragraphs : charges, for then we shall have obtained a secure...become independent of these provisional theories." It is rash to predict what may ultimately happen, but the present state of electrical science seems...

...farther on he repudiates the idea that this term can have any physical significance by saying that "it is extremely improbable that when we come to understand...currents and so become independent of these provisional hypotheses." 1 1, 37S-86And as a matter of fact, Faraday's experiments had not shown at all that electrical...

...charge, for convenience in description, one molecule of electricity." A few lines later he adds that " it is extremely improbable that when we come to understand...retain in any form the theory of molecular charges." Johnstone Stoney (1826-1911) in 1874 presented a paper on The Physical Units of Nature to the British...

...electricity'.1 But he then goes on to deny any real physical significance to this convenient decision, saying 'it is extremely improbable that when we come to understand...currents and so become independent of these provisional hypotheses.' And, after all, Maxwell was justified in granting that an ion always took into the solution...

...currents], and to appreciate the outstanding difficulties. . . . It is extremely improbable however that when we come to understand the true nature of...become independent of these provisional theories. The idea that electricity (which was regarded as a quality of matter) could have its own units or 'molecules'...

...current with a change in the state of the ether and not with the motion of a charge. In 1873 he wrote: for then we shall have obtained a secure basis on...currents and so become independent of these provisional hypotheses." See JC MAXWELL, A Treatise on electricity and magnetism, Vol. 1, Macmillan, Oxford, 1873...