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This is important. In Galilei's time not many had access to high quality optics, precise enough clocks and a high enough and sufficiently inclined towers;-) I
by weinzierl 7y ago
This is important.
In Galilei's time not many had access to high quality optics, precise enough clocks and a high enough and sufficiently inclined towers;-) I also believe that most people at his time didn't grasp the importance of his findings. Nowadays everyone can replicate his experiments and repeat his observations and that is good, but do people really understand the implications of the insights we gained in the last 100 years? I think most people outside of physics (and a few select areas of tech) see this modern experiments as some weird outliers instead of profound discoveries about our world. In my opinion the best, and maybe only, way to change this to have experiments like the one you described - modern physics in the garage.
Schools are also important: In the same way we let children do Galileis experiments we should be able to let them do modern experiments as well. My dream would be showing CHSH inequality in a fourth grade classroom.