asr comments on Rebutting radical scientific skepticism - Less Wrong

17 Post author: asr 30 April 2014 07:40PM

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Comment author: asr 02 May 2014 03:36:15PM 0 points [-]

This is incredibly cool and it makes me sad that I've never seen this experiment done in a science museum, physics instructional lab, or anywhere else.

Comment author: CronoDAS 02 May 2014 11:33:10PM *  2 points [-]

My freshman physics professor showed us a video of a Cavendish experiment, but doing it live is problematic. You need a fairly controlled environment to pull it off because any air currents in the room will push the small weights around, and it also it takes a long time for the weights to move.