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Tuesday, January 24, 2006

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As Freemasons, we are taught during the Fellowcraft degree to enlighten our minds by studying the Seven Arts and Sciences: Grammar, Logic, Rhetoric, Arithmetic, Geometry, Astronomy and Music.

That's a good start. Some people went a little farther than that, even. Physicists were recently asked to nominate the most beautiful experiment of all time. Here are the top ten winners.
  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

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