These were so highly thought of that in 1909 he was appointed extraordinary professor of theoretical physics at the university of Zurich.
This description, quoted from James Clerk Maxwell's article in the 9th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, represents the historical position of the subject up till about 1860, when Maxwell began those constructive speculations in electrical theory, based on the influence of the physical views of Faraday and Lord Kelvin, which have in their subsequent development largely transformed theoretical physics into the science of the aether.
Apart from Linux I enjoy reading books on theoretical physics.
In this interview, LoveToKnow Science Fiction sits down with physicist Jack Sarfatti in an effort to understand how close Science fiction stories are to real world theoretical physics of today.
Obviously this is an area of theoretical physics that receives a great deal of discussion - with many propulsion theories out there.
