[extropy-chat] FWD [forteana] Re: OT: Physics humor

[Terry W. Colvin]

A friend of mine majored in Physics here in Rome, Italy. One of his first
exercises was to experimentally calculate G (gravitation constant). Well,
his professor considered as fakes all results too much near to the real
value...


denic

>>> Electron Band Structure In Germanium, My Ass
>>> http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~kovar/hall.html

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I did this at uni, by means of Cavendish's balls (oo-er). I was out 
by just one order of magnitude, which was considered pretty good 
going.

Rob


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