Science's 10 Most Beautiful Physics Experiments

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clipped from 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. Based on the paper of George Johnson in The New York Times we list below 10 winners of this polling and accompany the short explanations of the physical experiments with computer animations.   1. Double-slit electron diffraction 2. Galileo's experiment on falling objects 3. Millikan's oil-drop experiment 4. Newton's decomposition of sunlight with a prism 5. Young's light-interference experiment 7. Eratosthenes' measurement of the Earth's circumference 8. Galileo's experiments with rolling balls down inclined planes 9. Rutherford's discovery of the nucleus 10. Foucault's pendulum

The Kiss

Wonderful picture and story

clipped from aad.lomag.net The Kiss ... He had just saved her from a fire in her house, rescuing her by carrying her out of the house into her front yard, while he continued to fight the fire. She is pregnant. When he finally got done putting the fire out, he sat down to catch his breath and rest. A photographer from the Charlotte, North Carolina newspaper, "The Observer," noticed her in the distance looking at the fireman. He saw her walking straight toward the fireman and wondered what she was going to do. As he raised his camera, she came up to the tired man who had saved her life and the lives of her babies, and kissed him, just as the photographer snapped this photograph.

Periodic Table of the Internet

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