In tech-speak, this method of using the network is called carrier sense multiple access with collision detection (CSMA/CD): that's a fancy way of saying that the nodes do their best to transmit when the ether is clear ("carrier sense"), they can all theoretically send or receive at ...
released twelve days before this comic, which discusses how physicists don't have a proven accurate model for the internal structure of a proton at rest and that having an AI analyze collision data resulted in a model significantly different from human-made ones. Transcript...