physics-animations.com — Robert P. Crease, a member of the philosophy department at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and the historian at Brookhaven National Laboratory, recently asked physicists to nominate the most beautiful experiment of all time.
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achoo5000Jan 2, 2007
go polish your nobel prize and don't whine.
Closed AccountJan 2, 2007
why do we hate frames again?Just asking, cause personally, I don't really give a crap.
whoblahJan 2, 2007
@jhshukla<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaning_tower_of_pisa#History">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaning_tower_of_pisa#History</a>"Galileo Galilei is said to have dropped two cannon balls of different masses from the tower to demonstrate that their descending speed was independent of their mass. Many parts of this story, though reported by Galileo's own student, are widely considered to be merely legendary. While Galileo probably did climb to the top of the tower and drop two items to further prove his already-proven theory, more than likely, the items were not two cannonballs."
dziban303Jan 2, 2007
Cloud chambers are friggin awesome. I must have sat and watched the one at the Exploratorium for close to an hour.
Closed AccountJan 3, 2007
oops, sorry, wrong, the tower was built several hundred years before Galileo...The tower was built between 1173 and construction continued until 1372 with the addition of the bell tower.Galileo Galilei (15 February 1564 ? 8 January 1642)Wikipedia and pretty much any other site will confirm these dates... As will your good old Encylclopedia Britanica..
frankkensteinJan 3, 2007
I think 8 out of 10 of these experiments have been album covers.
neurosJan 3, 2007
Heh. I go to Stony Brook.
fredrickoJan 3, 2007
This was actually the first one that popped into my head when I read the title. It's certainly one of the most important experiments of the last century (as far as it help facilitate all the technological developments since then).