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The way we study the nucleus is kind of funny: Throwing stuff at it and seeing the distribution pattern of how it bounces off or breaks out pieces. It's like i

The way we study the nucleus is kind of funny: Throwing stuff at it and seeing the distribution pattern of how it bounces off or breaks out pieces. It's like if Oumuamua[1] was thrown at us and some giant gas cloud entity that wanted to see if we had planets by measuring the trajectory anomalies as it came out. Or if meteor showers were to probe atmospheres. Alright, back to work. 1. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/11/interstellar-space-rock/546371/ https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/11/interste...

mhh__ 6y ago
"It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you." - Rutherford
- selcuka 6y ago
  I was suspicious about this quote as I thought tissue paper wasn't invented [1] when Rutherford said that but apparently Rutherford said this retrospectively in 1936; not in 1909. [1] Kleenex introduced the facial tissue in 1924
  - mhh__ 6y ago
    Tissue paper in the UK isn't for cleaning but rather a type of paper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tissue_paper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tissue_paper (usually used in arts and crafts)
    - perl4ever 6y ago
      Among the applications of tissue paper listed at your link, are toilet tissue, facial tissue, and paper towels. It also mentions "household towels" which doesn't make sense to me, surely they don't mean what I am used to. In my area of the US, however, "tissue paper" out of context doesn't imply any of those, I don't think, rather it's the stuff used to wrap gifts or maybe to crumple up to pad them in a box. The stuff is also crumpled and put in new shoes, for instance. It doesn't strike me as that odd to call toilet paper and facial tissues "tissue paper" although I don't think it's common; however calling paper towels or other towels "tissue paper" seems strange.
      - quantified 6y ago
        Considering the more-established meaning of “tissue”, using for any paper seems a bit odd.

mhh__ 6y ago

"It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you." - Rutherford

selcuka 6y ago
I was suspicious about this quote as I thought tissue paper wasn't invented [1] when Rutherford said that but apparently Rutherford said this retrospectively in 1936; not in 1909. [1] Kleenex introduced the facial tissue in 1924
- mhh__ 6y ago
  Tissue paper in the UK isn't for cleaning but rather a type of paper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tissue_paper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tissue_paper (usually used in arts and crafts)
  - perl4ever 6y ago
    Among the applications of tissue paper listed at your link, are toilet tissue, facial tissue, and paper towels. It also mentions "household towels" which doesn't make sense to me, surely they don't mean what I am used to. In my area of the US, however, "tissue paper" out of context doesn't imply any of those, I don't think, rather it's the stuff used to wrap gifts or maybe to crumple up to pad them in a box. The stuff is also crumpled and put in new shoes, for instance. It doesn't strike me as that odd to call toilet paper and facial tissues "tissue paper" although I don't think it's common; however calling paper towels or other towels "tissue paper" seems strange.
    - quantified 6y ago
      Considering the more-established meaning of “tissue”, using for any paper seems a bit odd.