Commentaries on Michael Faraday

Similarly to how Sir Isaac Newton explained how gravity worked in a time where nobody seemed to take scientific explanations seriously, Michael Faraday explained how electromagnetism worked in a time where people held a lot of speculations to what should truly be thought as a proper science. In his time, anything unknown to people was considered very broadly as either a religious act that couldn’t be comprehended, or as a scientific one that could, albeit with difficulty. In turn, these scientific acts were separated even further by level of presumed importance, and while gravity and hydrodynamics glistened in the spotlight for years, electricity and magnetism (among others) remained a long time at the end of the line sobbing quietly to themselves – that is, until Michael Faraday and others would finally make use of them. The story of this individual, Michael Faraday, – in a weird sort of way – mirrored the story of electricity and magnetism, because not only were these things ignored and presumed unimportant, but they also would all eventually prove their worth and impact the world in tremendous ways. The two stories are also intimately connected with one another, Michael Faraday obviously working with electromagnetic theory very often throughout his career as a scientist. But the two would change the world by bringing this relationship to the world, the relationship that electricity and magnetism could be controlled and that there are numerous more topics for science to discover if people were as willing as Michael Faraday to find them.