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Is There Something That Stops Working?
Ernest Rutherford believed that the more you swear it in experiment, the more likely it is to work. I don't typically swear my experiments, but if you find me doing it, I'm using Rutherford's technique. JJ Thompson's one was particularly interesting because even to his peers, he was just like super brainy, slightly, scarily smart guy,. And yet in his reflections on working in the lab, he was very open with this sense of frustration and this sense of having to learn your equipment so well.