Automated Rediscovery of the Maxwell Equations

Abstract

There is sufficient information in the far-field of a radiating dipole antenna to rediscover the Maxwell Equations and the wave equations of light, including the speed of light c . We created TheoSea, a Julia program that does this in a few seconds, and the key insight is that the compactness of theories drives the search. The program is a computational embodiment of the scientific method: observation, consideration of candidate theories, and validation.

Keywords

• automated discovery
• computational science
• meta-programming
• electrodynamics