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THE INVISIBLE FORCES: FARADAY AND THE HIDDEN WORLD OF ENERGY

By: Boris Kriger
Narrated by: Terri Bakken
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Nothing in this book can be seen.The forces that hold the world together announce themselves only through their effects: a needle that twitches, a filing that stands on end, a wire that jumps when nobody has touched it. For most of human history this was taken as evidence that such forces were not really there, or were there only as a manner of speaking, and that the space between two magnets was as empty as a room with the furniture removed.Michael Faraday disagreed. He was a blacksmith's son and a bookbinder's apprentice who never learned enough mathematics to follow the arguments of the men who disagreed with him, and he insisted, for forty years and against the settled opinion of educated Europe, that the space around a magnet was not empty but was in a condition — a real, physical state, everywhere at once, which the iron filings were merely drawing a picture of. He was proved right after he died. Almost everything now described as fundamental in physics is a version of the thing he claimed and could not calculate.This book follows him from a stationer's back room in Blandford Street to the laboratory beneath the Royal Institution, and then keeps going — into the century that turned his intuition into equations, and the century after that, which turned energy into information and began to suspect that gravity may not be a force at all. Along the way it asks three questions that Faraday's life poses better than any argument could. What licenses a scientist to declare that something exists? How did energy, which nobody has ever observed, become the most trusted noun in science? And why does it take so absurdly long — fifty years, sixty years, longer than a life — for a discovery to be believed by the people who most need it?It is a story of invisible things, told by way of a man who spent his life looking at them, refused a knighthood, refused to build a weapon, refused burial among the great, and asked only to be called plain Mr. Faraday to the end.©2026 Boris Kriger (P)2026 Boris Kriger
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