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I have a question on a little known paper from Einstein. He solved the problem of how a pollen particle moved so quickly across the water.
You’re referring to Einstein’s 1905 paper on Brownian motion, titled “On the Movement of Small Particles Suspended in Stationary Liquids Required by the Molecular-Kinetic Theory of Heat”. In this paper, Einstein didn’t directly address pollen particles but rather focused on the seemingly random movement of small particles suspended in a liquid.
He theorized that this movement was caused by the constant bombardment of these particles by the molecules of the liquid itself, a phenomenon now known as Brownian motion. This provided strong evidence for the existence of atoms and molecules, which was still debated at the time.
