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Two years of upheaval in the market for microprocessor computers have now been followed, in Britain, by stockholders' uneasiness about electronics giants. Stoicism is called for.
After more than a century, the reality of Maxwell's displacement current has been demonstrated by direct measurement. So, too, but less conclusively, has been the Aharonov/Bohm effect.