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To: js1138
If it were a direct measurement, it would not have taken Einstein to notice it.

Not even a nice try. Millikan measured it. Einstein explained it.

6,342 posted on 02/02/2003 12:50:07 PM PST by AndrewC (Aren't you glad you use Dial soap. Don't you wish everybody did?)
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To: AndrewC
Not even a nice try. Millikan measured it. Einstein explained it.

The Millikan experiment differentiated individual electrical charge on oil drops. No one saw the quanta--all they saw was oil drops. The rest of the story had to conjured by inductive reasoning, just as fossil stories about animals no one's actually ever petted are conjured by inductive reasoning.

6,373 posted on 02/02/2003 11:47:07 PM PST by donh
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