Faraday Alert!

I was watching The Colbert Report last night when the guest, author of The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments George Johnson, uttered the following:

Michael Faraday probably isn't a very well-known, household name, but Faraday was a great scientist in the early nineteenth century.

Not a household name? Wrong, sir! Michael Faraday was the inspiration for Daniel Faraday, the nutjob/scientist played by Jeremy Davies on Lost! (I'm not making that up - it's a reference just like Charlotte's name being C.S. Lewis and Abaddon's name meaning Destruction or Angel of the Abyss.)

If you don't know about him, Michael Faraday was big into electromagnetic experiments...sound related to an island you might know? Check out the video for the full discussion on him (it starts a little less than halfway through), and stick around through the end to watch Colbert significantly injure himself:

TAGS: Daniel Faraday, Electromagnetism, Michael Faraday, The Colbert Report, Video
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