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Originally Posted by MrPLD
On the same topic, there's also the "Rutherford's gold foil" experiment ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geiger%...den_experiment ) which completely shocked them.
"" "It was quite the most incredible event that has ever happened to me in my life. It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you"""
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Rutherford's quote is one of the most memorable in all of physics. That was a gem.