Posts Tagged ‘thoughts’
A man, A plan, A clock. Video
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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Learning Art Chaotically
03 | May | 2011 Learning art is a self-organizing system. A self-organizing system is something that, when left to itself, becomes more orderly. This is, in general, a counter-intuitive property. When a system is left to itself, we expect order to decline, almost along the lines of entropy. Entropy, however, deals with a closed system. Learning art is not a closed system as it is interconnected in many ways and on many levels to systems that surround it. In this way we deal with two other principles that may seem to be outside of the education realm: complexity and chaos. (more…)
