¶ Solid State
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Solid State:
“Science evolved the name ‘solid state’ physics when, immediately after World War II, the partial conductors and partial resistors-- later termed ‘transistors’-- were discovered. The phenomena were called ‘solid state’ because without human devising of the electronic circuitry, certain small metallic substances accidentally disclosed electromagnetic pattern-holding, shunting, route-switching, and frequency-valving regularities, assumedly produced by the invisible-to-humans, atomic complexes constituting those substances. Further experiment disclosed unique electromagnetic circuitry characteristics of various substances without any conceptual model of the ‘subvisible apparatus.’ Ergo, the whole development of the use of these invisible behaviors was conducted as an intelligently resourceful trial-and-error strategy in exploiting invisible and uncharted-by-humans natural behavior within the commonsensically ‘solid’ substances. The addition of the word ‘state’ to the word ‘solid’ implied regularities in an otherwise assumedly random conglomerate. What I have discovered goes incisively and conceptually deeper than the blindfolded assumptions and strategies of solid state physics–whose transistors’ solid state regularities seemingly defied discrete conceptuality and scientific generalization and kinetic omnigramming.”
