That's an old Feynman story, but he was kind of bullshitting to make a point. If you actually look at the history of measurements, it doesn't look like that at

That's an old Feynman story, but he was kind of bullshitting to make a point. If you actually look at the history of measurements, it doesn't look like that at all -- it instantly corrects to about the correct value right after Milliken and hovers around that value. https://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/264/timeline-of-measurements-of-the-electrons-charge https://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/264/timeline-of-meas...