While Lorenz might be known for coining the “Butterfly Effect” in relation to chaos theory, Lin says that the discovery of chaos theory actually dates back to the 1890s and a mathematician and ...

IN the discussion on relativity at the Royal Society on February 5 (NATURE, February 12), Mr. Jeans stated that the FitzGerald-Lorentz contraction theory presented grave difficulties in the case ...

and the Maxwell-Lorentz theory of electricity. It is a wonderful performance—judicious, scholarly, well written, and sparkling with apt comparisons and illustrations. A little masterpiece in ...

P (the Lorentz theory), P being the electric moment per unit volume produced by the radio wave in the neighbourhood of the charged particle under consideration. The discussion culminated in a ...

String theory has not, however ... Charge is therefore a field, which has its own laws of motion. The familiar Lorentz force law governing forces on charged particles is shown to be a condition ...