How cigars revolutionized physics
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asolomon
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As I get ready to start physics grad school in three weeks, I just found this article about how a famous quantum mechanics experiment was - apparently - the result of a bad cigar
Figured y'all would enjoy it.
http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~hpu/courses/Phys521_source/Stern-Gerlach.pdf

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Thanks for posting that, I'll get into a bit more after my coffee. What branch of physics are you heading into?
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Wow that was so many words! I read the caption on the cigar picture though haha.
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I should have majored in physics.
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interesting read....
it was a bit difficult to read through though, being that i hate physics and this crap was way over my head.
its interesting that they re-did the experiment 80 years later because it sounded too far out there.