Tuesday, January 07, 2025

Love & Math

Reading Love & Math by Edward Frenkel and loved this story:

"Another joke he like to tell involved the wireless telegraph: 'at the beginning of the twentieth century, someone asks a physicist at a party; can you explain how it works? The physicist replies that it is very simple: first you have to understand how the ordinary, wired, telegraph works: imagine a dog with its head in London and its tail in Paris. You pull the tail in Paris, and the dog barks in London. The wireless , says the physicist is the same thing without a dog."

Keep thinking this story can be applied to different situations too.

2 comments:

  1. And when you feed the dog in London, you get what in Paris? Heh. Totally appropriate, I'd say, with or without the dog. :-)

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