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By David C. Cassidy

because the 20th century ended, desktops, the web, and nanotechnology have been relevant to fashionable American existence. but the actual advances underlying those purposes are poorly understood and underappreciated through U.S. electorate. during this evaluate, Cassidy perspectives physics via America’s engagement with the political occasions of a tumultuous century.

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