{"id":11702,"date":"2012-05-17T03:00:58","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T08:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=11702"},"modified":"2012-05-17T03:00:58","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T08:00:58","slug":"the-evidence-is-pretty-thin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/11702","title":{"rendered":"The Evidence is Pretty Thin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/skullsinthestars.com\/2012\/05\/16\/the-secret-molecular-life-of-soap-bubbles-1913\/\">The secret molecular life of soap bubbles (1913)<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Most of us would look at a soap film image and marvel at the beautiful rainbow colors; others would investigate the optics underlying them.  But it took an exceptional physicist, Jean Baptiste Perrin (1870-1942), to realize that these colors concealed something more: direct evidence that matter consists of discrete atoms and molecules!<\/p>\n<p>Today we take for granted that all material objects in the universe are comprised of discrete \u201cbits\u201d of matter, which we call atoms; however, even up until the early 20th century there were still proponents of the continuum hypothesis, in which all matter is assumed to be infinitely divisible.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The secret molecular life of soap bubbles (1913) Most of us would look at a soap film image and marvel at the beautiful rainbow colors; others would investigate the optics underlying them. But it took an exceptional physicist, Jean Baptiste &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/11702\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}