Difference between revisions of "Cockcroft and Walton Experiment"

From Conservapedia
Jump to: navigation, search
(a start, please improve)
 
Line 1: Line 1:
An experiment by Cockcroft and Walton is heralded by some as proving ''[[E=mc2|E=mc<sup>2</sup>]]'', despite the utter lack of any logical justification for that science fiction formula.
+
An experiment by Cockcroft and Walton is heralded by most physicists  as demonstrating that ''[[E=mc2|E=mc<sup>2</sup>]]''.
  
In 1951, the [[Nobel Prize]] committee honored this experiment, but not for proving that ''[[E=mc2|E=mc<sup>2</sup>]]''.<ref>http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1951/</ref>
+
In 1951, the [[Nobel Prize]] committee honored Cockcroft and Walton  "''for their pioneer work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles''"<ref>http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1951/</ref>
  
 
(explain experiment)
 
(explain experiment)

Revision as of 06:03, January 23, 2013

An experiment by Cockcroft and Walton is heralded by most physicists as demonstrating that E=mc2.

In 1951, the Nobel Prize committee honored Cockcroft and Walton "for their pioneer work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles"[1]

(explain experiment)

References

  1. http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1951/