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Robert P. Crease recently asked physicists to nominate the most beautiful experiments of all time; this is a list of the top ten.

This graphic demonstrates an experiment done by Galileo where he rolled a ball down a plane and used a water clock to time it's speed. He discovered that the ball accelerated, something commonly known now, but at the time, this conflicted with Aristotle's prediction that the rate would be constant.

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