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... energy , the Virgin had acted as the greatest force the West- ern world ever felt , and had drawn man's activities to herself more strongly than any other power , natural or supernatural , had ever done ; the historian's business was to ...
... energy , the Virgin had acted as the greatest force the West- ern world ever felt , and had drawn man's activities to herself more strongly than any other power , natural or supernatural , had ever done ; the historian's business was to ...
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... energy or position and momentum . If we try to specify a particle's energy , for example , we can do so by decreasing the number of component waves having different energies . This process , however , allows the particle to dis- perse ...
... energy or position and momentum . If we try to specify a particle's energy , for example , we can do so by decreasing the number of component waves having different energies . This process , however , allows the particle to dis- perse ...
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Reconstructing Thomas Pynchon William M. Plater. energy at everyone else's expense . Information is the energy that keeps the system functioning ; it must continually be transmitted for there to be any organization whether or not the ...
Reconstructing Thomas Pynchon William M. Plater. energy at everyone else's expense . Information is the energy that keeps the system functioning ; it must continually be transmitted for there to be any organization whether or not the ...
Contents
Baedeker Land | 65 |
Death Transfigured | 135 |
In Which Various Things Come Together | 187 |
Copyright | |
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