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MacGyver Physics

counterfriction writes "This month's issue of Symmetry, a magazine jointly published by SLAC and Fermilab, is featuring an article that points out the sometimes extemporaneous and unconventional solutions physicists have come up with in (and out of) the laboratory. From the article: 'Leon Lederman ... used a pocket knife, tape, and items on anyone's grocery list to confirm that interactions involving the weak force do now show perfect mirror symmetry, or parity, as scientists had long assumed.'"

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  1. hi by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    hi

    1. Re:hi by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  2. E4! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
  3. Re:Changes over time? by Plutonite · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Having faith in the lack of editing on slashdot is one assumption which we will never have to reconfirm. Zonkism beats the scientific method, everyday.