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.
ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Then ascended to become pure EM spectrum as his final Gigahertz form.
te_abstract_art@lemmy.world 1 week ago
With great power comes great corruption and tyranny. So begins the dark era of Terahertz
kautau@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Only can Petahertz rise from the ashes of darkness and re-engineer the Universe before the incoming Heat Death
ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 1 week ago
“Hello, is that DarkHorse comics?
Boy, do I have an epic 5-phase graphic novel for you!”
jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
This thread hurts.