Astronomy and Physics: the 5 most ingenious experiments.

Astronomy and Physics: the 5 most ingenious experiments. Our modern understanding of the universe is based on hundreds of experiments spanning centuries, all designed and implemented by thousands of creative, hard-working scientists. Of course, a select group of these experiments stand out as especially innovative, because they transform our vision of how things work. A different exercise is to select the most intelligent experiments - those that discovered some simple fact of the universe through the ingenuity instead of the brute force. In 1992, it had been more than 60 years since the discovery of Pluto, and astronomers were eager to find a new planet - not in our solar system, but around another star. They knew that by looking closely at the light of a distant star, they could see the indicator changes in the wavelengths of light, called redshift and blueshifting, as any planet wobbled the star back and forth along its orbits . It is a shame that we did not have enough sensitive