The second and biggest surprise, crucial to the story I’m telling, is that understanding this force requires an important modification to the world of Newton: the modification out of which modern physics was born, and the most important notion to keep in focus, to understand the rest of this book: the notion of “field.” The understanding of how electromagnetic force works was made by another Briton, or rather by two, science’s oddest couple: Michael Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell.
