Beautiful Experiments

A philosopher at New York University asked physicists to nominate the most beautiful experiment of all time, and the results were published in the New York Times.

My first blog post from Digg. I can't resist playing with the new stuff.

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Just in case that link should disappear, here's the list:
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
6. Cavendish's torsion-bar 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

Cheese Juice

Cheese Juice
Originally uploaded by DerekL.

In Asda at Pilsworth, in the aisle next to the buttermilk, I noticed that they were selling cheese juice. Unusual, because they used to have an aisle labelled "foreign food" (including such exotic specialities as "spaghetti" that wasn't in a tin with tomato sauce) and I would definitely class cheese juice as foreign. Probably needs refrigeration, though, and "foreign food" was dry or tinned.