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Re:Nobel Price in Medicine goes to development of mRNA vaccines by bsder on Monday October 02, 2023 @06:46PM (#37745494)
While it's a nice story, I seem to remember that it isn't true.

There was some article a while back that talked about the fact that measurements from the oil drop experiment pretty much moved as the input data got better.

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Re:Nobel Price in Medicine goes to development of mRNA vaccines by emmelaich on Monday October 02, 2023 @11:53PM (#37747771)
As far as I know, the story is true. If the input data just got better, you'd expect measurements above and below the real value.

IIRC, the experimental value went in one direction, from Millikan's to the currently accepted value.

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Re:Nobel Price in Medicine goes to development of mRNA vaccines by bsder on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @12:39AM (#37748051)
Values were both above and below:

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/44092/is-feynma...

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Re:Nobel Price in Medicine goes to development of mRNA vaccines by emmelaich on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @01:43AM (#37748329)
Interesting but not fully convincing. I am sure I've seen a plot of values over time from the original to the 1950s or so. I must try and find it...

The linked SE question is relevant. https://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/264/timeline-of-meas...

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Re:Nobel Price in Medicine goes to development of mRNA vaccines by oefnak on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @12:16PM (#37753904)
Please provide a source, otherwise your comment does not provide any value.
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Re:Nobel Price in Medicine goes to development of mRNA vaccines by bsder on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @11:35PM (#37760559)
Citations already exist in sibling comments. The linked StackOverflow questions also have further sources where people are trying to track down time-limited original sources.

You clearly couldn't be bothered to put in even a minimal amount of effort to follow the citations that have existed for 12 hours prior to your useless post.

I will give your post as much consideration as you gave mine.

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