![]() ![]() The device is somewhat like the box in the Schrödinger's cat experiment, though not (potentially) deadly to anyone inside. Frank Oda, a former MIT physicist who once worked on a device that could prevent wave function collapse. ![]() Magic use ended worldwide when a photograph was taken of the solar eclipse of July 28, 1851. Stokes and Lyons eventually discover that photography nullifies magic in the general area by causing a wave function collapse. Stokes' translations suggest that magic and witches existed in the historical record, and also that magic grew weaker and ceased to function sometime during the Industrial Revolution. The work is classified, to the point that Lyons cannot even reveal the full name of D.O.D.O., the secret government agency that he works for. Melisande Stokes, a Harvard linguistics lecturer, to translate a variety of historic texts. Stephenson and Galland had previously written together on The Mongoliad. ![]() government agency known as the Department of Diachronic Operations (D.O.D.O.) as they attempt to change history through the use of magic. ![]() The story follows the members of a secret U.S. is a science fantasy novel by American writers Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland. ![]()
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