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the heartbeat of physics, counting how many times reality wiggles per second
means The hertz is the SI unit of frequency, equal to one cycle, vibration, or occurrence per second.
from Named in honor of Heinrich Hertz, the German physicist who in the late 19th century proved that electromagnetic waves predicted by Maxwell were real, demonstrating radio waves in the laboratory. His surname — an ordinary German family name — was adopted as the unit of frequency by international agreement in the 1930s, so that every time you tune a radio or rate a screen, you quietly invoke a man who once made invisible waves leap across a spark gap.
- namesake
- Heinrich Hertz proved radio waves exist, then shrugged
- useless quote
- Hertz called his discovery of no practical use
- human range
- ears hear roughly 20 to 20,000 hertz
- middle C
- vibrates near 262 hertz, pure math singing
- CPU brag
- gigahertz means billions of cycles every second
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heinrich hertz — physicist who proved electromagnetic waves exist in 1887