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In Rovelli's book he talks about going to Anton Zeilinger's laboratory to see the experiment in person. I assume you'd need a proper lab with carefully calibrat
by katabasis 5y ago
In Rovelli's book he talks about going to Anton Zeilinger's laboratory to see the experiment in person. I assume you'd need a proper lab with carefully calibrated equipment for something like this, but I'm not a physicist.
Even so, an effect that can be demonstrated with tabletop equipment in a lab seems more intuitively real to me than something that requires a giant particle accelerator...
100 or 200 years ago a more or less average person could set up cutting-edge scientific experiments with basic equipment and patient observation – this was the modus operandi of Michael Faraday[1] for example. Sadly it seems like those days are mostly behind us now.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Faraday https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Faraday
- dekhn 5y ago100 years ago, to do the Michelson Morely experiment (imho the most important scientific experiment done yet, except perhaps LIGO) required heroics and could not have been done by mere mortals. It required floating a massive appartus on a bed of mercury in a subbasement and was still hard to run during the day due to horse-based deliveries a few buildings over. My friend did the experiment in an afternoon Physics lab (princeton), almost all of of this is due to innovations in precision manufacturing and material science.