AUSTIN, Texas—A century after Albert Einstein said we would never be able to observe the instantaneous velocity of tiny particles as they randomly shake and shimmy, so called Brownian motion, physicist Mark Raizen and his group have done so.
“This is the first observation of the instantaneous velocity of a Brownian particle,” says Raizen, the Sid W. Richardson Foundation Regents Chair and professor of physics at The University of Texas at Austin. “It’s a prediction of Einstein’s that has been standing untested for 100 years. He proposed a test to observe the velocity in 1907, but said that the experiment could not be done.”
I have always thought that his theories were alien plants to keep us from learning things that would make us phenomenally more technologically advance (crack-pottery I know) ...
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