By Gian Francesco Giudice
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He rushed home to measure the intensity of electricity in lightning bolts, by means of an instrument connected to a metal rod. The lightning came and, without leaving time for the unfortunate Richmann to complete his measurement, instantly electrocuted him. Eventually science brought some order to this inchoate subject, and the understanding of electrical and magnetic phenomena culminated with the famous Maxwell’s equations. James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879) entered the University of Edinburgh at the age of 16, and three years later moved to the University of Cambridge.
The concept of forces acting instantaneously at a distance was incompatible with special relativity. Starting from these considerations and following a path that turned out to be long (1907–1915) and rugged (because of complex mathematics), Einstein reached a new formulation of the theory of gravity: general relativity. According to general relativity, a mass creates a distortion of space and time. Effectively, it “curves” space and time, modifying the fundamental geometric properties to which we are accustomed in “flat” space.
The place was chosen because it was sufficiently close to the Vatican to reduce the risk of being bombed. ) Electronic components for the experimental apparatus were bought on the black market during Nazi occupation of Rome. Pancini joined the other two physicists only at the end of the war, because he had been previously engaged on commanding resistance brigades in northern Italy. The experiments of the Italian group showed that the particle discovered by Anderson interacted only very weakly with the atomic nucleus and so it could not be Yukawa’s meson, which is the messenger of the strong nuclear force.