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21 | November | 2011QNoS: The Double Slit Metaphor
20 | September | 2011
The Quantum Nature of the Student
The Double Slit Metaphor
There is an experiment. It’s quite simple really: There are 2 walls, one in front of another. The first is solid, but with a rectangular slit in it. The second, behind the slit wall, is made up of some sort of lighter, malleable material. Some distance away from these walls, again in front of them, is a cannon. This cannon shoots marbles randomly at the slit wall, and those that make it through the slit, record their impact on the further wall by denting it. The denting is important here as the marbles are meant to represent particles of matter. What happens is then expected: a rectangular like shape similar to that of the slit is recorded on the far wall.
Now we replace the slit wall with a wall with 2 slits and fire the cannon again, randomly shooting the marbles at the wall. Again, the result on the far wall is a record of the double slit wall. We have 2 impact points the shape and size of the slits. QED.
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Robotic Educator
18 | August | 2011
So I thought of another unholy union, this time for an assignment. For an internship seminar we are to begin by defining the ideals we would like see in an educator. Characteristics that define a good educator, so to speak. Oddly, what came to my mind are the laws of robotics by Isaac Asimov. Just as to why these came to mind, I don’t know. There’s something about their directness and stability in referring to one another. I realize that what I’m doing takes a fictional premise and applies it to a a very real and serious situation, so my ‘translations’ into educator characteristics may seem ridiculous. I don’t mean to cheapen an educator by stating them this way, and my focus is mainly on an art educator. Nor do I intend the educator to be an automaton in any sense of the word (or even according to Asimov’s word, for that matter). What I’ve done here is to simply apply my opinions via a literary vehicle that matches my intention. The key here is that the 3 laws of robotics by Asimov are the inspiration for these initial laws. Unlike the robots of Asimov’s fictional worlds, we humans are not strictly confined to just these 3.
The 3 laws are as follows:
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