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Richard Feynman describes scientific inquiry as someone observing a game of chess.

Years ago I was reading A Brief History of Time and I came up with a very similar analogy where I was likening the study of quantum physics to observing a game of billiards. For example, perhaps you can only observe the table between turns, when everything is still. Eventually we’ve come up with a list of rules and observations:

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“A five-minute, non-technical explanation of where the internet comes from, how it works, and what it has to do with nuclear weapons.”

In an ideal world, I would have posted this a few days ago to assuage our sorrows from lack of Spoiler Warning this week.

This project began last week when my mother asked me about the internet. This is basically the answer I gave her, although I didn’t have a chalkboard on me at the time. It seemed to satisfy her, and I thought others might find it useful or interesting. I know a lot of this stuff will seem remedial to the folks that visit this site, but it’s my hope this will be passed around to those that are a little less tech-savvy. It went over well with my kids, at any rate.

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Shamus Young is a programmer, an author, and nearly a composer. He works on this site full time. If you'd like to support him, you can do so via Patreon or PayPal.