Comment on Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering

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• ThePyroPython@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Then ascended to become pure EM spectrum as his final Gigahertz form.

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  • te_abstract_art@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    With great power comes great corruption and tyranny. So begins the dark era of Terahertz

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    • kautau@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Only can Petahertz rise from the ashes of darkness and re-engineer the Universe before the incoming Heat Death

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      • ThePyroPython@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        “Hello, is that DarkHorse comics?

        Boy, do I have an epic 5-phase graphic novel for you!”

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      • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        This thread hurts.

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• niktemadur@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  He might have won the very first Nobel Prize, had he not passed away just a few years prior, and much too young, wasn’t he in his late-30s or early-40s?

  In fact, I believe that had Hertz remained alive and won his prize, the Nobel Committee would not have felt obliged to give it to Marconi a few years later.

  Marconi was a back-stabbing asshole who became one of the wealthiest men in the world by abusing the gentlemanly trust of others, and coasting on someone else’s technology - particularly the way crystals oscillate, and some of them serve nicely as a sort of “translation point” between electromagnetic waves and the physical apparatus that transmits and/or receives the signal.

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  • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    He might have won the very first Nobel Prize, had he not passed away just a few years prior,

    Basically the same thing happened twenty years later with Henrietta Swan Leavitt, who made a discovery that’s essential to figuring distances in space. She noticed something while working as a computer at Harvard College Observatory that eventually became known as Leavitt’s Law. Her Nobel nomination was halted because she passed away and the award is not given posthumously. Hubble’s work heavily relied on hers.

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