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Feb 16, 2015

To prove that there are multiple subatomic particles that exist.

Explanation:

The point of the Rutherford experiment was to prove that there are multiple subatomic particles that exist.

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The gold foil acted like a filter to prove that atoms are not one uniform blob, and that they had different parts that behaved in different ways.