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Historical Notes: Modern Dynamics
Historical Notes: Modern Dynamics
David D Nolte
Historical notes and historical biographies in the history of physics and the history of modern dynamics.
The Tangled Tale Of Phase Space, David D. Nolte
The Tangled Tale Of Phase Space, David D. Nolte
David D Nolte
(Preview of Chapter 6: Galileo Unbound: Oxford 2018) Phase space has been called one of the most powerful inventions of modern science. But its historical origins are clouded in a tangle of independent discovery and mis-attributions that persist today. This Physics Today article unravels the twisted tale of the discovery and the naming of phase space that began with Liouville in 1838, but by no means ended there, culminating in an encyclopedia article of 1911 that had unintended and lasting etymological side effects never intended by its authors.
Preface, David D. Nolte
Preface, David D. Nolte
David D Nolte
Light is the quintessential messenger. It travels faster than anything. It weighs nothing, and
costs almost as little to make. A million rays of light carrying a thousand colors can travel along with each
other or through each other without interacting, carrying data and commands between millions of locations.
This is the parallelism of light, and it represents massive communication and computational power. With
it, machines of light can do a million things at once.