The science of telecommunications started where and when Faraday discovered the laws of electric and magnetic induction. As a great experimentalist he had no formal education. Then the great theoretical physicist Maxwell attended one of Faraday’s public exhibitions and was inspired to formulate the correct physical laws of electromagnetism. His four equations whether expressed in differential or integral notations describe the interactions of electron and photons. The culmination is the most experimentally accurate and precise physical theory of quantum electrodynamics.
Simultaneously with those discovers of science in the Old World, the New World’s particular discover is Alexander Graham Bell (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Graham_Bell), he accidentally caused a chemical reaction which allowed electrons in wires to carry sound patterns from two connected soundproof rooms and thus extending the science of telegraphy into the science of telephony. However, the high demand for cheap and efficient electrical conductor places increasingly heavy burden on the copper production industries. If the electron can feel then they would be stressed constantly going back and forth along these wires at a third of light speed. The need for less wire has to wait the science of fiber optics, completely replacing the slower electrons with 3-time faster photons. By the principle of superposition more than one photon can be at the same place in the same time, contrasting the Pauli Exclusion Principle which forbids two or more electrons to be at the same place in the same time, reducing further the need for copper wires.
Since traveling photons in optical fibers can also travel without wires in air and vacuum merely by changing wavelengths or frequencies, the science of wireless telecommunications becomes possible. Thanks are given to the speedy soaring photons but sorrows are felt for the unemployed flightless electrons. Their total decommission would have to be the age of optical computers and advanced information storage capacity of holography.


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