Sublime

We call the rate of fluctuation of the electromagnetic field its frequency, and we measure it with the unit called Hertz,

Knowledge exists in inverse proportion to meaning. ~

We have an alternative solution, ergodicity economics, which has replaced the expectation value of the operator on this random object with a time average, or time average growth.

where we wrote Δx, what we really meant was Δx/c. Once we’ve chosen units in which c = 1, we can take the speed of light as implicit.

It’s “harmonic” when the potential is exactly proportional to x2

Within a few years, James Clerk Maxwell transforms Faraday’s visionary insight into a system of equations describing the fields. He grasps that light is nothing but a swift ripple upon these webs, and that these ripples, at greater wavelengths, can bear signals. Hertz reproduces them in the laboratory,

This paradox of comprehension was articulated explicitly by a great physicist of an earlier age: “Sir Isaac Newton, when asked what he thought of the infatuations of the people, answered that he could calculate the motions of erratic bodies, but not the madness of a multitude” (quoted from The Church of England Quarterly Review, 1850).