The mass of an electron settled down pretty smoothly
Well it ain’t stupid if it works ¯_ (ツ)_/¯
Comment on xkcd #3117: Replication Crisis
Bustedknuckles@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoThe most famous version of this might be Millikan’s oil drop experiments to measure the mass of an electron. His notebook is full of qualitative judgments of his measured values and which ones to include in the final determination. The mass of an electron settled down pretty smoothly
The mass of an electron settled down pretty smoothly
Well it ain’t stupid if it works ¯_ (ツ)_/¯
tal@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Ah, yeah, this sounds like it’s making a similar point, though whatever article I read long post-dated Feynman.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_drop_experiment