Word: swearword
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Dates: during 1938-1938
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...helpful diagrams. Co-author Infeld writes with lucid, straightforward simplicity, not devoid of patches of whimsey-as, for example, having shown how modern physics banished the concept of a jelly-like ether which carries light waves, he thereafter refers to the ether, when necessary, as if it were a swearword: "e-r." The authors admit that the avoidance of mathematical languages involves a certain loss of precision. But the loss is held to a minimum because they try not to paraphrase mathematical procedure, but to follow trains of physical thought, trace the origins from which they sprang, show the ends...
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