DANIEL HILL: INTERMINABLE CIRCUITRIES

March 28, 2020

It’s hard to imagine an experience more mundane and yet more revelatory than tossing two or three stones into a calm, glassy surfaced pond. You see before you, suddenly, a simulation of one of physics’ most foundational insights—the superposition of multiple waves, traveling through a material medium. You can be forgiven for not taking notes, as you’re likely mesmerized by the expanding ripples, radiating outward from each of their points of origin. As the advancing rings begin to collide, you behold one of nature’s most beautiful spectacles, those quintessential interference patterns crisscrossing the pond’s surface, each of the waves passing magically through the others without altering their form.