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Murray Gell-Mann & the invention of the quark
The term quark was coined by physicist Murray Gell-Mann, after a word from James Joyce’s novel Finnegans Wake. He also predicted the existence of a particle called the omega-minus, which was confirmed in 1964. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1969 for his work on the theory of elementary particles.
Gell-Mann was a child prodigy who entered Yale University at the age of 15 and graduated with a B.S. in physics in 1948. He introduced the concept of strangeness, a quantum property that accounted for previously puzzling decay patterns of certain mesons, in 1953. He also proposed a scheme for classifying subatomic particles into simple orderly arrangements of families, called the Eightfold Way, after Buddha’s Eightfold Path to Enlightenment and bliss, in 1961.
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RIP Niklaus Wirth (1934 -2024)
A true giant. He lived just down the road from here. Fondly remember learning Pascal as kid & discovering Wirth's law, which states that software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster. Writeln ('Bye, world')
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Plates from Electricity and Magnetism - By Oleg D. Jefimenko
Found via https://butdoesitfloat.com/ - #Science #Complexity
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The quantum source of space-time
Nikola Tesla Describing Quantum Entanglement In 1891.
“Nature has stored up in the universe infinite energy. The eternal recipient and transmitter of this infinite energy is the ether. The recognition of the existence of ether, and of the functions it performs, is one of the most important results of modern scientific research. The mere abandoning of the idea of action at a distance, the assumption of a medium pervading all space and connecting all gross matter, has freed the minds of thinkers of an ever present doubt, and, by opening a new horizon—new and unforeseen possibilities—has given fresh interest to phenomena with which we are familiar of old. It has been a great step towards the understanding of the forces of nature and their multifold manifestations to our senses. It has been for the enlightened student of physics what the understanding of the mechanism of the firearm or of the steam engine is for the barbarian.” - Nikola Tesla
“Experiments With Alternate Currents Of Very High Frequency And Their Application To Methods Of Artificial Illumination.” Lecture delivered before the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, Columbia College, N.Y., May 20, 1891.
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The Inexplicable Fine-Tuning of the Foundational Forces in Our Universe to Support Life
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Planck Epoch: What is time? What is space? What is finite? What is infinite?
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Planck’s Constant found encoded in the Great Pyramid of Giza
Upon computing the total energy required to raise all the stones to their respective heights in the Great Pyramid, and dividing by the number of stone steps in the construction, we obtain the energy of a photon that has the wavelength of the Planck Length. This observation enables us to calculate an estimate of Planck's Constant, h, from the measurements of the Great Pyramid of Giza, and provides a rationale for the architect's particular choice of the number of stone step layers found in the monument.
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"As fiction and music are coming close to reorganizing knowledge, scholarship is becoming closer to art." - William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light, 1981
