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Beauty and Physics
1. The correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting - no more - and then it motivates one towards originality and instills the desire for truth. Suppose someone were to go and ask his neighbors for fire and find a substantial blaze there, and just stay there continually warming himself: that is no different from someone who goes to someone else to get to some of his rationality, and fails to realize that he ought to ignite his own flame, his own intellect, but is happy to sit entranced by the lecture, and the words trigger only associative thinking and bring, as it were, only a flush to his cheeks and a glow to his limbs; but he has not dispelled or dispersed, in the warm light of philosophy, the internal dank gloom of his mind.- Plutarch
2. Eratosthenes of Cyrene, 194 BC Jean-Bernard-Léon Foucault , 1851 Galileo Galilei, 1600s Galileo Galilei, 1600s Henry Cavendish, 1781 Albert Michelson, 1887 Isaac Newton, 1671 Thomas Young, 1803 Robert Millikan, 1909 Ernest Rutherford, 1911 Claus Jönsson, 1961
4. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. (S)He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. - Albert Einstein
17. β Eratosthenes of Cyrene, Born 276 BC, Died 194 BC 3rd Librarian of Alexandria Not the first person to guess the world was round. Just proved it, nicely.
47. SIMPLICIO: There can be no doubt but that a particular body . . . has a fixed velocity which is determined by nature. . . SALVIATI: If then we take two bodies whose natural speeds are different, it is clear that, [according to Aristotle], on uniting the two, the more rapid one will be partly held back by the slower, and the slower will be somewhat hastened by the swifter. Do you not agree with me in this opinion? SIMPLICIO: You are unquestionably right. SALVIATI: But if this is true, and if a large stone moves with a speed of, say, eight [unspecified units] while a smaller moves with a speed of four, then when they are united, the system will move with a speed less than eight; but the two stones when tied together make a stone larger than that which before moved with a speed of eight. Hence the heavier body moves with less speed than the lighter; an effect which is contrary to your supposition. Thus you see how, from your assumption that the heavier body moves more rapidly than the lighter one, I infer that the heavier body moves more slowly.
53. “This new vacuum had better placement of the pumps valves and a preferable method of cranking its piston and supporting the air pump's cylinder. Boyle also proved for the first time that all objects, no matter how light or heavy, fall through a vacuum at the same speed. This showed, as Galileo had predicted, that the force of gravity is uniform. In another experiment, Boyle demonstrated that the sound of a clock ticking could not be heard in a vacuum, proving that sound waves depend on air for their transmission. Boyle showed, however, that electrical attraction could be felt through a vacuum.” Boyle and Hooke
69. A Letter of Mr. Isaac Newton ... containing his New Theory about Light and Colors Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, No. 80 (19 Feb. 1671/2) The gradual removal of these suspitions, at length led me to the ExperimentumCrucis, which was this: I took two boards, and placed one of them close behind the Prisme at the window, so that the light might pass through a small hole, made in it for the purpose, and fall on the other board, which I placed at about 12 feet distance, having first made a small hole in it also, for some of that Incident light to pass through. Then I placed another Prisme behind this second board, so that the light, trajected through both the boards, might pass through that also, and be again refracted before it arrived at the wall. This done, I took the first Prisme in my hand, and turned it to and fro slowly about its Axis, so much as to make the several parts of the Image, cast on the second board, successively pass through the hole in it, that I might observe to what places on the wall the second Prisme would refract them. And I saw by the variation of those places, that the light, tending to that end of the Image, towards which the refraction of the first Prisme was made, did in the second Prisme suffer a Refraction considerably greater then the light tending to the other end. And so the true cause of the length of that Image was detected to be no other, then that Light consists of Rays differently refrangible, which, without any respect to a difference in their incidence, were, according to their degrees of refrangibility, transmitted towards divers parts of the wall. When I understood this, I left off my aforesaid Glass works; for I saw, that the perfection of Telescopes was hitherto limited, not so much for want of glasses truly figured according to the prescriptions of Optick Authors, (which all men have hitherto imagined,) as because that Light it self is a Heterogeneous mixture of differently refrangible Rays http://www.newtonproject.sussex.ac.uk/view/texts/normalized/NATP00006
83. First American to receive the Nobel Prize! (1907) This was 2 years after Einstein’s miracle year.
84. "According to the assumption to be contemplated here, when a light ray is spreading from a point, the energy is not distributed continuously over ever-increasing spaces, but consists of a finite number of energy quanta that are localized in points in space, move without dividing, and can be absorbed or generated only as a whole." It was not really well received. It took 20 years before science came along.
86. The first battery, by Volta: 1799 Electricity is dubbed “a fluid” that flows from charged bodies
87. 3 Robert Millikan’s 1911 oil drop experiment showed electricity was discrete. He won the Nobel in 1923.
88. 3 Robert Millikan’s 1911 oil drop experiment showed electricity was discrete. He won the Nobel in 1923.
89. The lowest common denominator of many, many drops was the charge of an electron.
90. As of 2008, the accepted value for the elementary charge is 1.602176487(40)×10−19 Coulombs where the 40 indicates the uncertainty of the last two decimal places. In his Nobel lecture, Millikan gave his measurement as 1.5924(17)×10−19 Coulombs The difference is less than one percent, but it is more than five times greater than Millikan's standard error, so the disagreement is significant. Science makes mistakes.
91. We have learned a lot from experience about how to handle some of the ways we fool ourselves. One example: Millikan measured the charge on an electron by an experiment with falling oil drops, and got an answer which we now know not to be quite right. It's a little bit off because he had the incorrect value for the viscosity of air. It's interesting to look at the history of measurements of the charge of an electron, after Millikan. If you plot them as a function of time, you find that one is a little bit bigger than Millikan's, and the next one's a little bit bigger than that, and the next one's a little bit bigger than that, until finally they settle down to a number which is higher. Why didn't they discover the new number was higher right away? It's a thing that scientists are ashamed of - this history - because it's apparent that people did things like this: When they got a number that was too high above Millikan's, they thought something must be wrong - and they would look for and find a reason why something might be wrong. When they got a number close to Millikan's value they didn't look so hard. And so they eliminated the numbers that were too far off, and did other things like that.. “we fool ourselves” – Richard Feynman
97. It was quite the most incredible event that has ever happened to me in my life. It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you. On consideration, I realized that this scattering backward must be the result of a single collision, and when I made calculations I saw that it was impossible to get anything of that order of magnitude unless you took a system in which the greater part of the mass of the atom was concentrated in a minute nucleus. It was then that I had the idea of an atom with a minute massive center, carrying a charge. —Ernest Rutherford
100. 1 Claus Jönsson in 1961 demonstrated that beams of electrons acted just like beams of light.
101. Modern Theories did not arise from revolutionary ideas…introduced into the exact sciences from without… they have forced their way into research which was attempting consistently to carry out the programme of classical physics. They arose out of its very nature. Werner Heisenberg
102. Eratosthenes of Cyrene, 194 BC Jean-Bernard-Léon Foucault , 1851 Galileo Galilei, 1600s Galileo Galilei, 1600s Henry Cavendish, 1781 Albert Michelson, 1887 Isaac Newton, 1671 Thomas Young, 1803 Robert Millikan, 1909 Ernest Rutherford, 1911 Claus Jönsson, 1961