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[[File:Group_theory_overview.jpg|thumb|175px|link=Group theory (nonfiction)|Overview of topics in [[Group theory (nonfiction)|group theory]]: Finite groups, Discrete groups, Lattices, Topological and Lie groups, Algebraic groups.]]
• ... that James Joyce's '''''[[Portrait of the Artist as a Young NFT]]''''' is a ''nichtfungibletokenroman'' written in a modernist style about the intellectual and financial awakening of young Stephen Dataloss, Joyce's fictional alter-NFT ego, whose surname alludes to the loss of data, which undermines the non-fungible token economy?
• ... that '''[[Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|Johannes Kepler]]''' described his new astronomy as "celestial physics", as "an excursion into Aristotle's ''Metaphysics''", and as "a supplement to Aristotle's ''On the Heavens''", transforming the ancient tradition of physical cosmology by treating astronomy as part of a universal mathematical physics?<br>
 
• ... that '''[[ENIAC (SETI)|ENIAC]]''' (from "Empty Noise Into Alien Communication") was a secret SETI program during the Second World War, and that the Allies hoped to gather and reverse-engineer advanced technologies by transmitting disinformation to alien civilizations?<br>
• ... that chemist and physicist '''[[Henri Victor Regnault (nonfiction)|Henri Victor Regnault]]''' studied the thermal properties of matter;  that he designed sensitive thermometers, hygrometers, hypsometers and calorimeters, and measured the specific heats of many substances and the coefficient of thermal expansion of gases; and that in the course of this work, he discovered that not all gases expand equally when heated and that Boyle's Law is only an approximation, especially at temperatures near a substance's boiling point?
The '''[[Petrozavodsk phenomenon (nonfiction)|Petrozavodsk phenomenon]]''' was a series of celestial events of a disputed nature that occurred on September 20, 1977 over a vast territory, from Copenhagen and Helsinki in the west to Vladivostok in the east, and that the phenomenon is named after the city of Petrozavodsk in Russia (then in the Soviet Union), where a glowing object that showered the city with rays was widely reported?<br>
 
• ... that before electrical engineer '''[[Zénobe Gramme (nonfiction)|Zénobe Gramme]]''' invention of the Gramme machine, electric motors attained only low power and were mainly used as toys or laboratory curiosities?
• ... that Dee Ring, the home-repair superspy played by Patrick McGoohan in the television series '''''[[D-Ring: Agent of Suspense]]''''', also appears in a crossover episode of '''''[[Secret Reagent Man]]''''' starring McGoohan and Johnny Rivers?
 
• ... that astronomer Jacobus Kapteyn studied the proper motions of stars, reporting in 1904 that these were not random, as it was believed in that time; stars could be divided into two streams, moving in nearly opposite directions;  and that it was later realized that Kapteyn's data had been the first evidence of the rotation of our Galaxy, which ultimately led to the finding of galactic rotation by Bertil Lindblad and Jan Oort?
 
• ... that '''''[[The Man From K.E.S.S.E.L.]]''''' is an American science fiction buddy television series about a pair of space pilots (Robert Vaughn and David McCallum) who work for K.E.S.S.E.L., a secret interplanetary smuggling ring?
 
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• ... that '''[[ENIAC (SETI)|ENIAC]]''' (from "Empty Noise Into Alien Communication") was a secret Allied SETI program during the Second World War intended to gather and reverse-engineer advanced technologies from alien civilizations by transmitting strategic disinformation?
 
 
• ... that '''[[Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|Johannes Kepler]]''' described his new astronomy as "celestial physics", as "an excursion into Aristotle's ''Metaphysics''", and as "a supplement to Aristotle's ''On the Heavens''", transforming the ancient tradition of physical cosmology by treating astronomy as part of a universal mathematical physics?
 
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Latest revision as of 14:38, 19 January 2022

• ... that James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young NFT is a nichtfungibletokenroman written in a modernist style about the intellectual and financial awakening of young Stephen Dataloss, Joyce's fictional alter-NFT ego, whose surname alludes to the loss of data, which undermines the non-fungible token economy?

• ... that chemist and physicist Henri Victor Regnault studied the thermal properties of matter; that he designed sensitive thermometers, hygrometers, hypsometers and calorimeters, and measured the specific heats of many substances and the coefficient of thermal expansion of gases; and that in the course of this work, he discovered that not all gases expand equally when heated and that Boyle's Law is only an approximation, especially at temperatures near a substance's boiling point?

• ... that Dee Ring, the home-repair superspy played by Patrick McGoohan in the television series D-Ring: Agent of Suspense, also appears in a crossover episode of Secret Reagent Man starring McGoohan and Johnny Rivers?

• ... that astronomer Jacobus Kapteyn studied the proper motions of stars, reporting in 1904 that these were not random, as it was believed in that time; stars could be divided into two streams, moving in nearly opposite directions; and that it was later realized that Kapteyn's data had been the first evidence of the rotation of our Galaxy, which ultimately led to the finding of galactic rotation by Bertil Lindblad and Jan Oort?

• ... that The Man From K.E.S.S.E.L. is an American science fiction buddy television series about a pair of space pilots (Robert Vaughn and David McCallum) who work for K.E.S.S.E.L., a secret interplanetary smuggling ring?


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