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Light propagation controlled in photonic chips: Major breakthrough in telecommunication... - 0 views

www.sciencedaily.com/...110710132825.htm Light propagation controlled in photonic chips: Major breakthrough telecommunications field
shared by thinkahol * on 12 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • thinkahol * on 12 Jul 11
     
    ScienceDaily (July 11, 2011) - Researchers at Columbia Engineering School have built optical nanostructures that enable them to engineer the index of refraction and fully control light dispersion.
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Information Processing: The Age of Computing - 0 views

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shared by Todd Suomela on 25 Jan 09 - Cached
  • By their less than wholly objective accounts of the development of physics, historians have conspired to propagate the myth of science as being essentially theoretical physics. Though the myth no longer described scientific reality 50 years ago, historians pretended that all was well, that nothing had changed since the old heroic days of Einstein and his generation.
    • Todd Suomela
      Todd Suomela on 25 Jan 09
       
      Don Ihde discusses this predisposition toward theoretical physics in his book Philosophy of Technology.
  • Todd Suomela on 25 Jan 09
     
    ...Historians of science have always had a soft spot for the history of theoretical physics. The great theoretical advances of this century -- relativity and quantum mechanics -- have been documented in fascinating historical accounts that have captivated the mind of the cultivated public. There are no comparable studies of the relations between science and engineering. Breaking with the tradition of the Fachidiot, theoretical physicists have bestowed their romantic autobiographies on the world, portraying themselves as the high priests of the reigning cult.
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