Day 1,282: amplitude
In Optalysys’s system, the information is encoded into the phase and amplitude of many different beams.
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2022/12/20/a-better-way-to-process-encrypted-data
Artwork of the day
On the Beam
John McCracken
Date: 1998
Style: Minimalism
Genre: installation
Word of the day
amplitude:a large amount or wide range, the strength of a wave of sound or electricity, measured at the strongest repeating part of the wave
Quote of the day
“The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity.”
― Alfred North Whitehead