The dictionary defines a genius as someone who displays “exceptional intellectual or creative power or other natural ability.” Nowhere in that definition does it say that a genius has to be infallible. That's something you and I share with a genius. Sometimes we are wrong. Alert readers will recall that we recently discussed Ohm's Law. He proposed a relationship between voltage, current and resistance that challenged the established science.
Ohm's law describes the essential, bedrock principle upon which rests all things electrical. Consider the world around you. Everything that has electricity running through it owes its existence to this principle. And Georg Ohm was the guy who mathematically described it. Ohm's law. Pure genius. His contemporaries despised him. In the first hour of the first class of the first course of any electrical engineering curriculum, the teacher writes this on the blackboard: V = IR.
Ohm's law describes the essential, bedrock principle upon which rests all things electrical. Consider the world around you. Everything that has electricity running through it owes its existence to this principle. And Georg Ohm was the guy who mathematically described it. Ohm's law. Pure genius. His contemporaries despised him. In the first hour of the first class of the first course of any electrical engineering curriculum, the teacher writes this on the blackboard: V = IR.
From a mysterious natural phenomenon to a wonder of atomic science, the story of electricity is the story of modern humankind. This is how electricity evolved.