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Exactly what claim are you disputing about cloud chambers? According to Wikipedia they were extremely useful to the discoverers of the positron, the muon and t
by alimw 10y ago
Exactly what claim are you disputing about cloud chambers? According to Wikipedia they were extremely useful to the discoverers of the positron, the muon and the kaon.
- MichaelGG 10y agoSorry for being unclear. During Goenka's "discourses" he went off on many things. One of them being that cloud chambers were pointless as they only revealed things known to Buddha and Indian meditators for millennia. Yeah... That was just one thing out of many that put me off from those courses.
- alimw 10y agoAgreed it does seem unlikely that one could observe fundamental particles by looking inwards. Probably best to understand his use of language from particle physics as analogy. I don't suppose old Goenka had much of an education in modern science, you could cut the guy some slack :)