Quote: “Today, scientists have at their disposal machines so precise they can detect the weight of a single bacterium and so sensitive that readings can be disturbed by someone yawning seventy-five feet away, but they have not significantly improved on Cavendish’s measurements of 1792.”
Question: Why is it that they haven’t improved? Because it’s so complex? Because they don’t feel it’s very important? How did they make these machines?
Comment: The part about someone yawning from 75 feet away reminds me of Chaos Theory, since it’s such a small change that changes a reading drastically, like what happened when they rounded a number to predict the weather. Seems like chaos theory connects to a lot of what I’ve been reading.
Pretty cool how you related the reading to your senior project there. Making good connections yay!
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