July 06, 2016 Wednesday
Staples and sutures removed
POD 13
Now Chadwick was stuck in the enemy nation when the first world war broke out.
Just imagine yourself as an Indian getting stuck in Islamabad when Indo-Pakistan war breaks out.
He was mercifully not killed or executed but transferred to the Ruhleben internment camp near Berlin.
Chadwick showed his love for physics by setting up a laboratory in the stables and conducting experiments with improvised materials such as radioactive toothpaste.
It is remarkable that even under these onerous conditions he along with another English detainee Charles Drummond Ellis undertook scientific experiments on the photochemical process!!
But it was his work with Hans Geiger on beta radiation that would later on bring him fame.
(Mark mon ami that there was no hatred among these scientists who came from the opposite warring camps).
Chadwick using Geiger counter demonstrated that the beta radiation did not produce discrete lines as had been previously thought but rather a continuous spectrum with peaks in certain regions.
I as an ophthalmologist of course cannot explain the significance of this anomaly.
This continuous spectrum remained unexplained for a very long time.
In fact, Einstein once on a visit to Hans Geiger's laboratory told Chadwick:
"I can explain either of these things, but I can't explain both at the same time."
Remember mon ami, anything that does not fit a theory is deeply disconcerting to a true scientist.
A true and a great scientist will probably devote his whole life in trying to find a scientific explanation for an anomaly.
This is yet another reason why such incredible mind rise above ordinary apes like me.
Stay tuned to the voice of an average storytelling chimpanzee or login at http://panarrans.blogspot.in/
Good night mon ami and my fellow cousin ape.
Staples and sutures removed
POD 13
Now Chadwick was stuck in the enemy nation when the first world war broke out.
Just imagine yourself as an Indian getting stuck in Islamabad when Indo-Pakistan war breaks out.
He was mercifully not killed or executed but transferred to the Ruhleben internment camp near Berlin.
Chadwick showed his love for physics by setting up a laboratory in the stables and conducting experiments with improvised materials such as radioactive toothpaste.
It is remarkable that even under these onerous conditions he along with another English detainee Charles Drummond Ellis undertook scientific experiments on the photochemical process!!
But it was his work with Hans Geiger on beta radiation that would later on bring him fame.
(Mark mon ami that there was no hatred among these scientists who came from the opposite warring camps).
Chadwick using Geiger counter demonstrated that the beta radiation did not produce discrete lines as had been previously thought but rather a continuous spectrum with peaks in certain regions.
I as an ophthalmologist of course cannot explain the significance of this anomaly.
This continuous spectrum remained unexplained for a very long time.
In fact, Einstein once on a visit to Hans Geiger's laboratory told Chadwick:
"I can explain either of these things, but I can't explain both at the same time."
Remember mon ami, anything that does not fit a theory is deeply disconcerting to a true scientist.
A true and a great scientist will probably devote his whole life in trying to find a scientific explanation for an anomaly.
This is yet another reason why such incredible mind rise above ordinary apes like me.
Stay tuned to the voice of an average storytelling chimpanzee or login at http://panarrans.blogspot.in/
Good night mon ami and my fellow cousin ape.
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