What do you think is the best scientific experiment?

Question: What do you think is the best scientific experiment?
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Asked by aagarwal to Catherine, Charlotte, Colin, Becki, Rick on 20 Jun 2013.
- Charlotte Dalton answered on 20 Jun 2013:
  
  I would have to say Rutherford’s gold foil experiment that gave us the structure of the atom, it was a simple design but completely disproved what people used to think atoms were like, at first people didn’t accept it but it was such a good experiment they had to in the end
- Rebecca Scott answered on 20 Jun 2013:
  
  ooh, that’s a really tough question… I always like the ones you can try yourself because I learn best by having a go. So it might not be the best experiment but it’s one I like doing… you take a white flower and split the stem and then put each part of the stem in a different glass of water and then add different food colourings and then 12 hours or so later your flower has changed colour 🙂
- Colin Swift answered on 20 Jun 2013:
  
  I’d guess Michael Faraday’s experiments with electricity and magnetism. Without electricity a lot of our work would be considerably more difficult!
- Catherine Fontinelle answered on 20 Jun 2013:
  
  One of the cleverest is the way you can put two antibiotic discs next to each other on an agar plate and see how they interact with bacteria.