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A photon can be set by measurement to be either vertical/horizontal or +45 degree/-45 degree. It cannot be both at the same time. When those photons make it through the first Polaroid filter, their polarization angles have been frozen in
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“But perhaps I was destined for a more glorious end, one worthy of envy, as Victor Hugo said2—like, for example, being pounded, shredded, asphyxiated, blown to bits in a cloud of smoke.”
― Poilu: The World War I Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914-1918
― Poilu: The World War I Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914-1918
“We don’t remember isolated facts; we remember things in context.”
― Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
― Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
“Only mosquito can save Nigeria. Only mosquito can save South Africa. Only mosquito can save Zimbabwe Only mosquito can save Namibia. Only mosquito can save Africa. Only malaria can save Africa. Only yellow fever can save Africa.”
― The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
― The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
“Our section chief found himself there in conversation with a “Fritz” who spoke fairly good French. He was saying that they were mostly Poles in his regiment. They wouldn’t surrender, because the Germans would take it out on their families and their property. But this Pole suddenly indicated that someone was coming along the boyau, and he dropped down, calling out Vive la Pologne! Vive la France!”
― Poilu: The World War I Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914-1918
― Poilu: The World War I Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914-1918
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