Experimental Physics

Released: May 9, 2026 8:00 AM CST

Here is the twenty-ninth episode of Quantum Foam, Experimental Physics. We have been going over some difficult things here and we have to know how they are treating the physics we are talking about. We are going to give some examples of what exactly is done when doing Experimental Physics. Many things could be going on such as regrouping disciplines of physics that are related to detailed conceptualizations. We are trying to find symbolic relationships. Experimentalists prepare reports that describe their detailed findings in the lab. Experiments need to be falsifiable. Physics is the same thing as natural philosophy. Newton had been splitting light into colors with prisms. Before him, there was Galileo Galilei dropping stones and feathers from the leaning tower of Pisa. Henry Cavendish weighed the world and discovered hydrogen and laid the foundations for theories of gravity. There are all kinds of facts. I can't think of one at the moment. Fermi-Dirac Statistics adheres to the Pauli Exclusion Principle. We may need to consider all the particles as a type of wave physics. H-Wave Physics. We run experiments by modeling on a computer and by running the science, math, and programming. Thomas Young performed the double-slit experiment, which demonstrates that quantum particles like electrons and photons behave as both waves and particles, exhibiting interference patterns when unobserved, but acting like classical particles forming bands when measured. There is wave-particle duality. Over the centuries it went back and forth whether or not light was considered a particle or a wave. Plank came up with the idea that energy is not continuous, but emits discrete, quantized packets called quanta to solve the black-body radiation problem. We are looking at creating an updated wave mechanics that take into account the known laws of physics balancing out to a Theory Of Everything. We need to be able to describe discrete quantities of continuums of space-time in a small enough region to where it can act like a particle. Just call it a particle. The photoelectric effect was directly observed in experiment.

What if our reality was heading for a crunch singularity? The expansion of the universe is attributed to the Dark Energy. String Theories can only be static lattices that are placed alongside our universe. We are all part of the same system. We are the only beings that are here that are anthropic enough to ask the big questions and to do experiments to figure things out. James Prescott Joule showed in experiment that the amount of potential energy lost by a falling weight was exactly equal to the amount of heat gained by the water after being dipped into. A watt is a joule of energy per second. Robert Millikan measured the charge of the electron with an oil drop experiment. He got the 1923 Nobel Prize for physics. Some of the drops fell more slowly and he was able to measure the amount of one electron of charge. Rutherford's Gold Foil Experiment was conducted in 1909 by Ernest Rutherford, Hans Geiger, and Ernest Marsden. The gold foil experiment bombarded thin gold foil with alpha particles, revealing that most passed through while a few were deflected, proving that atoms are mostly empty space with a tiny, dense, positively charged nucleus. Niels Bohr was one who best understood the modern description of the atom. Experiments such as these were a precursor to understanding how to split the atom, as in the process of nuclear fission. Enrico Fermi demonstrated a chain reaction in 1942 at the University Of Chicago messing around with Uranium-235. This is what powers nuclear weaponry. This is the button that they push that sends a signal to a device that moves a lever that starts a chain reaction. Francis Crick and James Watson co-discovered the double-helix structure of DNA in 1953 at Cambridge University. Their model, which utilized X-ray diffraction data from Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins, revealed how genetic information is stored and replicated. This molecular scale is the scale of chemistry. If ever in doubt, test out your theory. To acquire knowledge it would be constructive to be doing Experimental Physics.