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“My soul is an entangled knot, Upon a liquid vortex wrought By Intellect in the Unseen residing, And thine doth like a convict sit, With marline-spike untwisting it, Only to find its knottiness abiding; Since all the tools for its untying In four-dimensional space are lying, Wherein they fancy intersperses Long avenues of universes, While Klein and Clifford fill the void With one finite, unbounded homoloid, And think the Infinite is now at last destroyed.”

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James Clerk Maxwell

James Clerk Maxwell was an outstanding physicist known for his contributions to the field of electromagnetism. He formulated Maxwell's equations, which describe the properties of electromagnetic fields and predict the existence of electromagnetic waves. Maxwell's work has had a profound impact on modern physics and engineering. more

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