Renaissance

Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. - Aristotle

Honestly, I do not know relation between beauty and maths, thankfully that doesn’t stop me  from appreciating it. Macro shot taken with Nikon S10. Diptych to give two different perspective. The background is Thailand’s Grand Palace

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Ten most beautiful experiments in science. This is pretty old stuff which was published in The New York Times, 2002. More info can be found here.

1. Double-slit electron diffraction
2. Galileo’s experiment on falling objects
3. Millikan’s oil-drop experiment
4. Newtons’s decomposition of sunlight with a prism
5. Young’s light-interference experiment
6. Cavendish’s torsion-bar experiment
7. Eratosthenes’s measurement of earth’s circumference
8. Galileo’s experiments with rolling balls down inclined plane
9. Rutherford’s discovery of the nucleus
10. Foucault’s pendulum.

More information on Physicsweb

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