Issue #43 ~ They say Albert Einstein had his first scientific epiphany at age 4. His father showed him a compass, and the young Einstein realized that the needle’s motion is affected by an invisible force. “This is not the same force as is produced by me kicking a rock and the rock flying away”, he thought.
This is why I give 1,2,3, 4 year olds. helium balloons for their Birthdays. They have spent their lives learning Gravity when the Cheerios ALWAYS fall to the floor. -- the ballloons defy their known, experienced Laws of Science. Keep them thinking!! More ideas welcome!
Excellent suggestion. On my blog I had made a series of articles "How to explain to my 6 year old grandson"... relativity, quantum mechanics, time, etc...
I've read already opinions that quantum superposition is indecision. I haven't stopped to see his name because the idea crossed my mind to. And I believe a child would think that too. For a child reality is not real. It becomes real little by little as he is broke in like a horse. A child is pure will. By the time his will is broken he starts to think everything has it's place and space is absolute. Pure will knows no place that can contain it.
I've heard this next story from a rabbi on the net that God tried to make the world with force and the world shattered into peaces. And since then people try to reunite the shattered pieces little by little. If we remember that children want to impose with tantrums their will and their vision on what the world should be shatters we see an explanation for the rabbinic story.
Excuse the digression but my sincere opinion is that what we see with our eyes as space is just theory of space not what space is. That is why QM seems weird.
The expression '' gawking like the cow at the new gate'' describes what a cow does when returning from the pasture sees the new gate the shepherd has installed. Space is that gate and we are the cow.
A strange notion of space for an adult I've seen in ''In the tall Grass'' 2019.
As far as I can think this theory that dominates us is that space is mathematical order. Is it though?
Again, a beautiful and inspiring text. However, I think that currently responsibility lies with you, the physicist of quantum mechanics (QM): design a few easy-to-perform experiments adapted for preschool children, experiments which introduce the secrets of f.e. entanglement. There will be enough pedagogues to go with the children into the secrets of QM.
This is why I give 1,2,3, 4 year olds. helium balloons for their Birthdays. They have spent their lives learning Gravity when the Cheerios ALWAYS fall to the floor. -- the ballloons defy their known, experienced Laws of Science. Keep them thinking!! More ideas welcome!
Excellent suggestion. On my blog I had made a series of articles "How to explain to my 6 year old grandson"... relativity, quantum mechanics, time, etc...
To amplify what Peter said, kids need hands-on experiments—do you have any thoughts on what those might be? In my own public presentations, I’ve used laser pointers and thin pencil leads for a (classical) two-slit experiment, a solar-powered calculator and colored flashlights for the photoelectric effect, polarizing sunglasses for a classical version of quantum cryptography (https://www.criticalopalescence.com/p/demonstrate-quantum-encryption-with-a-flashlight-and-pair-of-sunglasses), and a cloud chamber made from a dust sprayer (https://www.criticalopalescence.com/p/how-to-build-the-worlds-simplest-particle-detector). Even these experiments require a lot of exposition to understand what is being shown. I think entanglement and decoherence will be a heavy lift.
I've read already opinions that quantum superposition is indecision. I haven't stopped to see his name because the idea crossed my mind to. And I believe a child would think that too. For a child reality is not real. It becomes real little by little as he is broke in like a horse. A child is pure will. By the time his will is broken he starts to think everything has it's place and space is absolute. Pure will knows no place that can contain it.
I've heard this next story from a rabbi on the net that God tried to make the world with force and the world shattered into peaces. And since then people try to reunite the shattered pieces little by little. If we remember that children want to impose with tantrums their will and their vision on what the world should be shatters we see an explanation for the rabbinic story.
Excuse the digression but my sincere opinion is that what we see with our eyes as space is just theory of space not what space is. That is why QM seems weird.
The expression '' gawking like the cow at the new gate'' describes what a cow does when returning from the pasture sees the new gate the shepherd has installed. Space is that gate and we are the cow.
A strange notion of space for an adult I've seen in ''In the tall Grass'' 2019.
As far as I can think this theory that dominates us is that space is mathematical order. Is it though?
I was thinking maybe kids could learn how the world works by playing video games. Minecraft is a good one. :)
I made some mistakes and the posting should have have some editing option. I hope it is understandable what I meant.
Again, a beautiful and inspiring text. However, I think that currently responsibility lies with you, the physicist of quantum mechanics (QM): design a few easy-to-perform experiments adapted for preschool children, experiments which introduce the secrets of f.e. entanglement. There will be enough pedagogues to go with the children into the secrets of QM.