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To: nihil who wrote (36595)	8/30/1999 1:37:00 AM
From: JF Quinnelly	Respond to of 71178

The opening phrase of Einstein's 1905 article in which he describes Special Relativity makes pointed reference to "Maxwell's Electrodynamics". Special Relativity is a treatise on the sameness of those laws of electrodynamics in all frames of reference. In 1931 Einstein contributed to the volume celebrating the centenary of Maxwell's birth. In surveying the latest developments in physics for that essay Einstein claimed that ultimately physics would return to carrying out "the program which may properly be called Maxwellian- namely the description of physical reality in terms of fields, which satisfy partial differential equations without singularities." Maxwell advanced physics by replacing Newtonian particle singularities with fields. Einstein did employ the intuitive conviction that the universe is both real and fully rational. This is why Einstein rejected the philosophy of Kant, for whom the universe is the product of the metaphysical cravings of the intellect.