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“These days, a sensitive atomic beam experiment would be carried out by people wearing special suits and protective head coverings in a dust-free air-conditioned clean room, but in the 1920s it was de rigueur for the experimenters to be clad in tweed jackets and be perpetually wandering round their dirty lab surrounded by huge clouds of pipe smoke. On this particular occasion, that helped.”

The utter satisfaction of being consistent and picking up a book again months after starting it ✨💅

“But there’s more. If an astronaut travels in a spaceship in uniform motion at some speed with respect to you, the astronaut’s watch will run slower than yours. For her, time slows down with respect to you. However, she will deduce the same about you and assume it is your watch that has slowed down.”

“Pierre Curie (Marie’s husband)”

Yay for representation 🥰

“from a series of decisive experiments, from Galvani’s work on frogs ”
How is it that all the pieces of media I consume are always related to each other !!! The utter coincidence of never hearing about Galvanism before in my life and now encountering it twice in one week, in Frankenstein and in a book about Magnetism of all things !!!

“The Commissioners having recognized that this animal-magnetism fluid cannot be perceived by any of our senses, that it had no action whatsoever, neither on themselves, nor on patients submitted to it; …having finally demonstrated by decisive experiments that the imagination without magnetism produces convulsions, and that magnetism without imagination produces nothing”