Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Principle of the Wu experiment illustrating parity violation
Principle of the Wu experiment illustrating parity violation edit
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- Reason
- A well-executed drawing illustrating the principle of the Wu experiment in a fashion understandable to laymen. The result of this experiment was one of the most startlingly unexpected in all of physics, proving that the current world would not behave identically with its mirror image (the only difference being that left and right would be reversed). Few experiments in physics have had greater impact.
- Articles in which this image appears
- Wu experiment
- FP category for this image
- WP:Featured_pictures#Sciences
- Creator
- Bleckneuhaus on the German Wikipedia, with English language captions by Stigmatella aurantiaca
- Support as nominator --Stigmatella aurantiaca (talk) 03:28, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
- Also Support Alt. Stigmatella aurantiaca (talk) 19:34, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
- Comment. The arrowheads at the top and bottom of the Mirror Plane are unnecessary and confusing, IMO. The one at the bottom, in particular, runs contrary to the direction of Electron flow through the solenoid coils. One might easily confuse the direction of this arrow with the text that is written on top of it, you see. I'll edit the image to remove the arrows. I hope this meets with your approval. Regards, nagualdesign (talk) 04:20, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
- Thanks for your edit. Some here may not see the edited version immediately. It takes a while for all of the servers to synchronize, and even explicitly purging the cache doesn't seem to speed up the process. If don't see the arrows, good. If you still see the arrows, it may take a few days for the edited version to appear, and I know of no way to speed up the process except by slightly tweaking (by a pixel) the size of, say, the thumbnail container. I will tweak the thumbnail size both here and in the Wu experiment article, but that won't help the appearance of the image in Commons (where I still see arrows). Stigmatella aurantiaca (talk) 04:48, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
- I really like this diagram, but when I looked at it up close there were a few things that bothered me about the image quality, so I decided to see if I could improve upon it (or at least give it a good spit and polish). Whilst my finished work is based on this image, it's so different that I thought it would be a bit arrogant to upload it over the top of this one, therefore I uploaded a brand new image at File:Wu experiment.jpg. Materially, it's much of a muchness, but it's a little cleaner than the original. Hope you like it as much as I enjoyed making it. Kind regards, nagualdesign (talk) 07:18, 19 December 2013 (UTC) ..PS. Here's the Photoshop file, if anyone's interested.
- Cobalt nuclei should be within the coils. The Alt shows it outside the coils. Rays should also be moved.
- The phrase in the Alt "if parity was conserved" loses the subjunctive mood. It should read "if parity were conserved." Stigmatella aurantiaca (talk) 09:25, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
Done. Corrected as requested. And thanks for the link to subjunctive mood. Interesting stuff. Kind regards, nagualdesign (talk) 18:41, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
- Thanks. Supporting both now. Stigmatella aurantiaca (talk) 19:34, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
- Note: Unless the alternate version is actually used in the article it has zero EV. Conversely, if the images are swapped the original will have zero EV. You'll need to decide which one you want to use/promote. nagualdesign (talk) 23:36, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
- Actually, what is customarily done is that if an Alt is chosen for FP, it will be used to replace the original. There is no need to perform any replacement until the voting is over. One is perfectly free to support multiple versions of an image. Stigmatella aurantiaca (talk) 23:54, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
- Thank you for clearing that up. nagualdesign (talk) 02:35, 20 December 2013 (UTC)
- Actually, what is customarily done is that if an Alt is chosen for FP, it will be used to replace the original. There is no need to perform any replacement until the voting is over. One is perfectly free to support multiple versions of an image. Stigmatella aurantiaca (talk) 23:54, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
- Note: Unless the alternate version is actually used in the article it has zero EV. Conversely, if the images are swapped the original will have zero EV. You'll need to decide which one you want to use/promote. nagualdesign (talk) 23:36, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
- Thanks. Supporting both now. Stigmatella aurantiaca (talk) 19:34, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
- I really like this diagram, but when I looked at it up close there were a few things that bothered me about the image quality, so I decided to see if I could improve upon it (or at least give it a good spit and polish). Whilst my finished work is based on this image, it's so different that I thought it would be a bit arrogant to upload it over the top of this one, therefore I uploaded a brand new image at File:Wu experiment.jpg. Materially, it's much of a muchness, but it's a little cleaner than the original. Hope you like it as much as I enjoyed making it. Kind regards, nagualdesign (talk) 07:18, 19 December 2013 (UTC) ..PS. Here's the Photoshop file, if anyone's interested.
- Thanks for your edit. Some here may not see the edited version immediately. It takes a while for all of the servers to synchronize, and even explicitly purging the cache doesn't seem to speed up the process. If don't see the arrows, good. If you still see the arrows, it may take a few days for the edited version to appear, and I know of no way to speed up the process except by slightly tweaking (by a pixel) the size of, say, the thumbnail container. I will tweak the thumbnail size both here and in the Wu experiment article, but that won't help the appearance of the image in Commons (where I still see arrows). Stigmatella aurantiaca (talk) 04:48, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 03:53, 1 January 2014 (UTC)