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two waves meeting and deciding, democratically, where to cancel and where to scream louder
means The act of getting in the way of something — whether a process, a signal, or another person's plans — or, in physics, the way overlapping waves combine to reinforce or cancel each other.
from From Latin 'inter-' (between) plus 'ferire' (to strike), via the verb 'interfere' — literally to strike or come between. The same 'ferire' (to hit, to wound) lurks behind words for striking blows, so 'interference' carries the old sense of two things colliding mid-air. The wave-physics meaning was borrowed into English in the early 19th century when scientists needed a word for light and sound waves crashing into one another.
- destructive
- crests meet troughs and silence is born
- noise-canceling
- headphones fight sound by adding more sound
- double slit
- single particles interfere with themselves, somehow
- oil sheen
- rainbow puddles are light waves clashing
- radio static
- signals overlapping until meaning dissolves
iranian interference in iraq — iran-backed militias and advisors directly shaped iraqi politics and military decisions 2003-present
saudi interference in yemen — saudi coalition intervened militarily in 2015 yemeni civil war, killing over 100,000 people