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localize all of our sensations is a perfectly rigid and fixed
framework where each physical event can, in principle, be
rigorously localized independently of all the dynamic
processes which are going on around it.
We shall see how not only Cartesian but Euclidean perceptions
are constituted by the phonetic alphabet. And the revolution
that de Broglie describes is a derivative not of the alphabet but
of the telegraph and of radio. J. Z. Young, a biologist, makes
the same point as de Broglie. Having explained that electricity is
not a thing that “flows” but is “the condition we observe when
there are certain spatial relations between things,” he explains
(p. 111):
Something similar has happened as physicists have
devised ways of measuring very small distances. It has