Marshmallows of the speed of light!

[ciphergoth]

Thanks, meta!

http://www.physics.umd.edu/ripe/icpe/newsletters/n34/marshmal.htm

Comments

[akicif.livejournal.com]

Wow... that's neat. It certainly beats measuring the distance to the Moon with a meter stick, a penny and a photo of a partial lunar eclipse (oh, and I think you had to know the diameter of the Earth, but this is a previously solved problem).

[barakta]

Shame I think hot marshmallow is really grim, but sounds much more interesting than my 2 yrs of A level physics!!!

hehehe

Must try it sometime

Natalya

[babysimon]

Mmmmm. I feel this is cheating somewhat, as you have to read the frequency off the back of the microwave. Not very empirical.

Of course, I'm just bitter because marshmallows aren't vegetarian.

n

[pavlos.livejournal.com]

Your experiment measures the refractive index of marshmallows to microwave radiation, not the speed of light in vacuum.

Pavlos