Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli  40

The history of light if funny.

First people thought it was a particle, as per corpuscular theory of light, notably Newton supported the corpuscular theory of light.

But then evidence of the diffraction of light start to become unbearably strong, culminating in the Arago spot.

And finally it was understood from Maxwell's equations that light is a form of electromagnetic radiation, as its speed was perfectly predicted by the theory.

But then evidence of particle nature started to surface once again with the photoelectric effect. Physicists must have been driven mad by all these changes.

Experiments: speed of light experiments.

Far field approximation to Kirchhoff's diffraction formula, i.e. when the plane of observation is far from the object diffracting.

Near field approximation to Kirchhoff's diffraction formula, i.e. when the plane of observation is near the object diffracting.

TODO this would give a better motivation for the Mathieu group

Higher transitivity: mathoverflow.net/questions/5993/highly-transitive-groups-without-assuming-the-classification-of-finite-simple-g

Her neck is huge! She also redid her teeth at some point apparently. Some good photos at: www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/mackenzie-scott-how-the-former-mrs-bezos-became-a-philanthropist-like-no-other-1.4850049

async is all present in JavaScript for two reasons:

However, it is also Hell: how to convert async to sync in JavaScript.

This resonates a lot with Ciro Santilli's ideas!