Measuring the speed of light with chocolate and a microwave
I knew from the title of this article that I had to write about it in my blog. I read the article and the physics seem pretty sound to me. Who would have thought that chocolate could be so instrumental in a speed of light experiment? This is definitely the coolest thing I've seen in a while! I've seen kits in catalogs for speed of light experiments and none of them are as simple as this. The kits typically use a laser, beam splitter, long fiber optic cable, interference pattern, etc. I just can't get over the simple elegance of the chocolate method.