[A]fter a close study of the experimental work of Michael Faraday,... James Clerk Maxwell succeeded in uniting electricity and magnetism in the framework of the electromagnetic field. ...Beyond uniting... all... electric and magnetic phenomena in one mathematical framework, Maxwell's theory showed—quite unexpectedly, that electromagnetic disturbances travel at a fixed and never-changing speed that turns out to equal that of light. From this, Maxwell realized that visible light itself is nothing but a particular kind of electromagnetic wave... Maxwell's theory also showed that all electromagnetic waves—visible light among them—are the epitome of the peripatetic traveler. They never stop. They never slow down. Light always travels at light speed.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "[A]fter a close study of the experimental work of Michael Faraday,... James Clerk Maxwell succeeded in uniting electricity and magnetism in the framework of the electromagnetic field. ...Beyond uniting... all... electric and magnetic phenomena in one mathematical framework, Maxwell's theory showed—quite unexpectedly, that electromagnetic disturbances travel at a fixed and never-changing speed that turns out to equal that of light. From this, Maxwell realized that visible light itself is nothing but a particular kind of electromagnetic wave... Maxwell's theory also showed that all electromagnetic waves—visible light among them—are the epitome of the peripatetic traveler. They never stop. They never slow down. Light always travels at light speed." in the context of "Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe (1999, 2003) Ch. 1 Tied Up with a String." to mean that wisdom is timeless.