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  "path": "/2026/04/01/thinking-about-bracewell-probes/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-01T17:27:43.000Z",
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  "textContent": "Sometimes I jog my perspective on thorny physics issues by going back to earlier work. At our all too infrequent dinners together, Claudio Maccone used to tease me about this, saying that older scientific papers had inevitably been superseded by recent work which would, in any case, incorporate the early documents. But I find that […]",
  "title": "Thinking about Bracewell Probes"
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