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I remember doing the Millikan oil drop experiment in a college physics lab. I got a charge value about 1/3 of what it should have been. Obviously, I was obser
by thyrsus 7y ago
I remember doing the Millikan oil drop experiment in a college physics lab. I got a charge value about 1/3 of what it should have been. Obviously, I was observing unpaired quarks ;'}
- plank 7y agoInteresting, I did so as well, back in - I think - 1990 or so. Did it together with a fellow student, we both reported seeing a quark, but did not get the Nobel prize;-)
- ahartmetz 7y agoI did it in a lab exercise and I think we were 20% off with the proper result somewhere close to the end of the error bar (inside or outside I don't remember). It felt disappointing at the time, like all early lab exercises. Some later ones were much closer to the state of the art.