For ten points, what are these "solitary waves"?
Bell Labs has sent them without errors over thousands of kilometers. John Scott Russell discovered them and called them "waves of translation." They were first seen in the Union Canal. They are localized in space, and retain their shape after interacting with one another. The four-dimensional type, localized in time as well as in space, is called an "instanton." The prototypical equation with this type of solution is the Korteweg-deVries equation. They are always caused by nonlinear effects. For ten points, what are these "solitary waves"?
Bell Labs has sent them without errors over thousands of kilometers.
{Soliton}