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the Italian physicist Guglielmo Marconi invented an even more powerful form of telecommunication, which made the need for secure encryption even more pressing.
Simon Singh • The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
Any great discovery of a new law is useful only if we can take more out than we put in.
Robert B. Leighton • Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher
Magnetic influences have to do with charges in relative motion, so magnetic forces and electric forces can really be attributed to one field, as two different aspects of exactly the same thing.
Robert B. Leighton • Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher
Michael Nielsen • Augmenting Long-Term Memory
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Aberration of Starlight
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
When discussing coherence among multiple frequencies, we are also talking about the organization and synchronization of information and energy – the more coherence in a system, the more organization there is, which means more information and more energy can be contained and transferred.