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Quite a while back, Clifford Johnson at Cosmic Variance had a post seeking nominations for "The Greatest Physics Paper Ever." Back after a long hiatus, he's now holding a vote among five finalists: Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica, Albert Einstein's General Relativity, Emmy Noether's paper on…
The Top Eleven is now complete. Here's the full list of experiments, with links to my summaries:
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Today is the last day to vote in Cosmic Variance's Greatest Physics Paper contest. If you haven't voted yet, go over there and pick a paper.
Locally, I'm still collecting nominees for the Greatest Physics Experiment. A quick scan through the comments gives the current list as:
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Regular CogDaily readers know that I don't usually harp relentlessly on a single issue. Believe me, I'd much rather be talking about things like this, but it's not very often that I get a chance to make an impact in the blogosphere. Thanks to a link from Fark (via BoingBoing) it looks like today…
It's kind of unsettling that you've gotten less than 100 votes, after a considerably long time of running. Why do people shy away from Science so?
Also, I posted this in the comments on the voting page, but I'm reposting here 'cause I just want to know what you guys think about it, and I'm assuming that it went unnoticed on that page. (I'm sorry to repost it if it was intentionally ignored)
Honestly, I'm pleasantly surprised that I've gotten as many votes as I have. Those 85 comments are a slow day for Making Light, but that's a huge number for a physics post. And there's an awful lot of material there if you were to read the full text of all the descriptions.
I'd like to get to 100 comments, but I'm happy with what I've got.
As for Fizzeau's experiment, it didn't get nominated. There were a lot of good experiments that didn't come up-- Davisson-Germer and Stern-Gerlach are two personal favorites that didn't make the list, either.