“When he first tried to put the equations that describe the
electric and magnetic fields into one system, he found a disturbing asymmetry in the forms of the equations. For purely esthetic reasons he changed
the equations in order to make them more
symmetric.” …Those new, esthetically modified equations went on to tell him
that the speed of the waves through the fields was equal to the speed of light…
Lee Smolen, The Life
of the Cosmos, Oxford ,
1997 (p48)
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