A preliminary report on the standings in the Greatest Physics Experiment voting:
- Michelson-Morley: 13
- Faraday: 7 (including one vote in the Farady post)
- Roemer: 5
- Aspect: 4.5 (one indecisive person voted for both Cavendish and Aspect)
- Galileo: 3
- Rutherford: 3
- Cavendish: 1.5
- Hertz: 1 (in the comments to the Hertz post)
Newton, Hubble, and Mössbauer are currently getting shut out.
Voting will remain open for another couple of days, so if you're a backer of somebody other than Michelson and Morley, you've still got time for a late charge: round up some friends, and get out the vote.
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Today is a big day for American Presidential politics, the so-called Super Tuesday when citizens in 24 states vote or caucus with their fellows to help select the candidates of the two main political parties. I live in one of those 24 states and Mrs. R. and I vote regular as clockwork.
I've been thinking about the Electoral College, that mechanism by which voters in the U.S. indirectly elect their president.
Are you registered? Do you know where to vote? You can find information and register (if you are not) here (this is an Obama site, but it works for everyone):
I'll put in a sympathy vote for Hubble...
I would be inclined to offer a write-in vote for Francis Crick & Rosalind Franklin, two physicists who made a small contribution to understanding the basis of inheritance in biological systems.
Unlike astrophysics, poor biophysics is rarely recognized as being True Physics. :(
I'll have to vote for Faraday. I wish I had thought of this before, but I'd be interested to know if Ph.D.s in physics voted differently than non-Ph.D.s. I would expect that folks in different fields of physics vote differently, also.
I'll have to vote for Faraday. I wish I had thought of this before, but I'd be interested to know if Ph.D.s in physics voted differently than non-Ph.D.s. I would expect that folks in different fields of physics vote differently, also.
There probably are differences there, but even if I'd asked, I don't think I'm going to get enough responses to have any statistical significance...
I vote Faraday, he united electricity and magnetism setting up the stage toward a TOE (Theory of Everything).