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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,
Carlo Rovelli • Anaximander: And the Birth of Science
This is Einstein at Princeton, 1935.
He was tasked to find which young physicists would revolutionize science.
His unconventional method found Oppenheimer, Wheeler, and Nobel-Prize winners before anyone knew their names.
Here is his ONE method to spotting genius:... See more
Einstein invented everything he was ever going to invent by the age of 25. The rest of his life was spent in a futile chase to find a force he couldn’t find called the Fifth Force—the unifying force.
Stuart Wilde • Infinite Self: 33 Steps to Reclaiming Your Inner Power
This is Jeff Yan.
He is the co-founder of Hyper Liquid, doing $10B in daily volume.
He went from being a quant at Hudson River Trading to running one of the largest decentralized exchanges in crypto.
Here's what you need to know: https://t.co/eZeRmKQ06g
Thomas Gold was a professor of astrophysics at Cornell University and one of the most interesting scientists of the 20th century. He had a notable penchant for diving into completely new fields and developing hypotheses utterly at odds with the scientific consensus of the day. His many achievements include correcting the understanding of how the... See more
Doomberg • The Other Strategic Reserve
At 12 years old, I built a working nuclear fusion reactor in my bedroom.
I got a Guinness world record... and the FBI showed up to my house.
here’s the story 🧵 https://t.co/I9lFf5S9U4