Top Ten Physics Experiments Of All Times

MarkedMan writes "The New York Times is running an article about the top ten physics experiments of all time. You may disagree with the order, but it is hard to imagine pulling any one of these from the top ten. And most of them could be done by a patient amateur, at least one with access to cannonballs." The Times article wraps up the work by Robert P. Crease mentioned a few weeks ago.

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Re:Aristotle's common sense wasn't.

[Alomex]

I am not aware that he actually performed a single experiment. Aristotle regarded experimentation 'beneath right thinkers'.

This attitude is still found today in much of the social sciences and humanities, hence their uselessness

Essentially, he passed his opinion off as fact and the western world bought it.

To this date, much of sociology is an argument of opinions the levi-straussites against the marxists against the flavour-of-the-day-theory. Not once does it occur to them to set up experiments to start discriminating between the different theories.