“Mermaids are excellent journeyers because they can avoid pier pressure, make a splash, ride the waves, and seas the day.”
Sir Joseph LarmorBorn 11 Jul 1857; died 19 May 1942 at age 84.Irish physicist, the first to calculate the rate at which energy is radiated by an accelerated electron, and the first to explain the splitting of spectrum lines by a magnetic field. His theories were based on the belief that matter consists entirely of electric particles moving in the ether. His elaborate mathematical electrical theory of the late 1890s included the "electron" as a rotational strain (a sort of twist) in the ether. But Larmor's theory did not describe the electron as a part of the atom. Many physicists envisioned both material particles and electromagnetic forces as structures and strains in that hypothetical fluid. |
