Science & math 2-minute read

A wandering particle changed physics

Three traced paths of particles undergoing Brownian motion.

Follow apparently random microscopic motion into the evidence for atoms and the mathematics of chance.

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J. B. Perrin, SVG drawing by MiraiWarren / Wikimedia Commons / Public domain

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