Optics

It was a groundbreaking start of a book.

In fact, it was the beginnings of a manuscript that would revolutionize optics.

And the groundbreaking book that eventually came up was Kitab al-Manazir, The Book of Optics.

And to understand why his book was so revolutionary, one needs to examine the intellectual paralysis that had gripped the study of vision previously.

For over a millennium by that time, and what was truly remarkable about Muslim scholars, and this is a commentary of what Muslim scholars were able to achieve, is that they did not simply translate manuscripts from earlier civilizations.

Remember, I once said algebra was my favorite subject in maths.

Yeah, optics.

Together with trigonometry, right? Optics was my favorite subject in physics.

Obviously, alongside universal law of gravitation and all of that, he also sort of massively pioneered the field and our, like, understanding of light.

And he sort of published not only Principia, but also Optics, which is a very famous work of mine.

light and optics.

And

And once it was published in English, it sort of got a bit wider spread across the continent a bit more.

And it became a bit more widely known.

But his Optics, which was his second book, I think it's his, yeah, his second book, was published in English originally, first time.

So the first editions you can read, they are in English, which is an interesting transition then from sort of the language of science with Latwell.

A much smaller footprint reduces spillover and the opportunity for detection, interception, or interference.

Optical communications also operate outside the increasingly congested RF spectrum, adding capacity without competing for finite RF bandwidth.

And perhaps most importantly, optical links can increasingly connect nodes across a mesh network, space to space, space to ground, and potentially to air and other nodes.

That's what begins to change the architecture.

So you need to have that flexibility, but you need to have those standards.

Otherwise, you're going to set yourself up like we did, like we found often in the RF, in the communication realm, terrestrially, where you lock yourself into a certain protocol and a certain way of doing business that may not be optimized for the entire system.

con ops that you want to to engage in so because you need those standards but you need the flexibility it has to have a government lead to to to get to the to the idea of this is going to be the most flexible thing that i can do and this is where it applies in this specific area and what i want to do in the comps that i want to do it this one is going to apply for this con ops and what i needed to do and well Optical communication looks the same.

I may have to have a different standard to do a different thing.

In the field of optics, he built the first reflecting telescope.

His observations with prisms showed that white light consists of a spectrum of colors.

He later published these findings in a book titled Optics.

Beyond his scientific pursuits, he served as the Master of the Royal Mint.

He spent dreißig years in London managing British coinage.

His notes and published works provided a foundation for the development of modern analysis and geometry.

Even after moving to London to work at the Mint, he continued to engage with mathematical challenges, demonstrating his lifelong commitment to the field.

Optics.

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this is the losing of a war because I would've worked my darndest to find an Optics win somewhere in the molasses of the Windy City war, such as, I don't know-

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So, yeah, Britain, not doing great.

Yeah, you know, optics-wise, they're no Italian.

Moral-wise.

Yeah, they're no Italian World War II force.