{"id":1900,"date":"2002-09-24T12:39:54","date_gmt":"2002-09-24T12:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=1900"},"modified":"2002-09-24T12:39:54","modified_gmt":"2002-09-24T12:39:54","slug":"the_10_most_bea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=1900","title":{"rendered":"The 10 Most Beautiful Experiments"},"content":{"rendered":"

The NYTimes has an article on the 10 most beautiful experiments of all time.<\/p>\n

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…Most of the experiments — which are listed in this month’s Physics World — took place on tabletops and none required more computational power than that of a slide rule or calculator.<\/p>\n

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What they have in common is that they epitomize the elusive quality scientists call beauty. This is beauty in the classical sense: the logical simplicity of the apparatus, like the logical simplicity of the analysis, seems as inevitable and pure as the lines of a Greek monument. Confusion and ambiguity are momentarily swept aside, and something new about nature becomes clear. [New York Times<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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I even remembered some of these from science classes back in High School.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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