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.
For the scientist and the inner geek ummm... inside the all of us, these are real cool experiments. And in all honesty, the Leaning Tower of Pisa experiment is the only one I'm familiar with...
