…years, actually, or nearly 100 years, namely morphogenetic fields. First of all, fields. Fields were first introduced into science by Michael Faraday in London. And the idea was that there are regions of influence in space outside material objects. Here's a…

…attraction and repulsion. But no one understood them. Everyone was fascinated by it. But no one understood it. In the 1840s, Michael Faraday, working right here in London, invented the field concept. And he used the English word field, which really means a…

…before this revolution. It was a completely revolutionary insight into the nature of nature. But what were these fields? Everyone asked Faraday that question, and the answer was he didn't know. He had two theories about the fields. One was that he thought…

…the ether, an invisible form of subtle matter pervading all space. In 1905, Einstein, in his theory of... theory of relativity. What Faraday, his idea that they were just modifications of space, in a way, that's what Einstein went back to. In his special…

…Science didn't address this mystery, it simply forgot about it for a century or two. It wasn't until the work of Michael Faraday here in London in the 1840s that this field concept was introduced into science. And what fields are, are invisible organizing…

…Well, After the Cartesian revolution, none of these concepts were allowed, but they all began to come back again after Faraday introduced the field concept. Instead of the magnetic soul, we had the magnetic field, an invisible connecting influence with a…

…of the magnetic soul, we had the magnetic field, an invisible connecting influence with a pattern, a shape. And when people said to Faraday, what is the field? What's it made of? He said, I don't know. He said, it's a pattern in space. You can review…

…However, Einstein was not the first person to invent the field concept. That was invented in the 1840s by Michael Faraday studying electrical phenomena. Before Faraday, there was no real explanation for electricity and magnetism. Until the 17th century, they…

…first person to invent the field concept. That was invented in the 1840s by Michael Faraday studying electrical phenomena. Before Faraday, there was no real explanation for electricity and magnetism. Until the 17th century, they were understood in terms of…

…and electrical souls, which left magnetism and electricity with no explanation. Again, people didn't know how to understand them until Faraday reinvented the soul under the name field. And the magnetic soul became the magnetic field. And he showed that…

…case. They have a self-organizing property, and they'll all line up together in the same way. The next picture. shows how Faraday extended this idea to electrical fields. These are static electrical fields. This again is a picture of Faraday's, showing how…

…the ordinary English word field, which already had a wide range of meanings. Its most general meaning is a region of influence. Faraday didn't know what fields were made of. He had two theories. One theory, which he preferred, was that fields were made of…

…is not itself a field, but is organized by fields. The concept of fields in science was first put forward by Michael Faraday. We have the first slide. And Faraday worked with magnetic and electric fields. Everyone's seen magnetic fields, at least they're…

…by fields. The concept of fields in science was first put forward by Michael Faraday. We have the first slide. And Faraday worked with magnetic and electric fields. Everyone's seen magnetic fields, at least they're manifested through iron filings, as in this…

…with magnetic and electric fields. Everyone's seen magnetic fields, at least they're manifested through iron filings, as in this example. And Faraday was wrestling with the idea of how can a magnet have an influence at a distance? How can it affect iron…

…room's full of invisible electromagnetic influences, radio, television, cell phone fields, and so on. So what are fields made of? When Faraday first put forward the idea of fields, he admitted he didn't know, and he had two hypotheses. One was that fields…

…years, actually, or nearly 100 years, namely morphogenetic fields. First of all, fields. Fields were first introduced into science by Michael Faraday in London. And the idea was that there are regions of influence in space outside material objects. Here's a…

…neuroscience at University of Sussex, which is, I can tell you, a hotbed of heresy. He is the recent winner of the prestigious Faraday Award. And in his book, The Being You, A New Science of Consciousness, he made it very clear that the human brain is…

…way that nature is organized. And this is broadened through the concept of fields, first introduced into science by Michael Faraday in relation to electric and magnetic fields, then through Einstein's general theory of relativity, taken to include the…

…way that nature is organized. And this is broadened through the concept of fields, first introduced into science by Michael Faraday in relation to electric and magnetic fields, then through Einstein's general theory of relativity, taken to include the…

…interconnections, and we now call those the gravitational field, which links together everything in the universe. In the 19th century Michael Faraday first discovered or named the electrical and magnetic fields and we now think of the whole universe as filled…