't Hooft falsely claims that Maxwell's continuous differential equation of displacement current for a charging capacitor is not in conflict with the fact that the capacitor's charge increases in discrete units (electrons), not as a continuous variable.īecause Maxwell's displacement current equation is one half of Maxwell's electromagnetic radiation theory (in conjunction with Faraday's law of induction, another Maxwell equation first written in vector calculus by Oliver Heaviside who doesn't get credit) we can see why classical electromagnetism (Maxwell's equations) fail to work for situations where individual charges are important such as small capacitors, for example atoms are capacitors (they have are positive and negative charges separated by vacuum) which is a way of analysing the problem that reveals a lot about why Maxwell's displacement current formula breaks down for quantum theory. Seeing that for all his brilliance Einstein just set the stage for string theory to take over physics as a mechanism-less speculation which does not interact properly with the real world, Witten well deserves to be called a new Einstein, along with Nobel laureate 't Hooft.
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Smolin's Why no new Einstein? essay in the June 2005 issue of Physics Today is online as a PDF file here which kinda contrasts with Edward Witten's essay in the April 1996 issue of the same journal which claimed that his (Witten's) stringy 10 and 11 dimensional M-theory 'has the remarkable property of predicting gravity'. įame, physics, and unification of fundamental forces Peter Woit's Not Even Wrong has been published in America.