the double strip experiment

"'In order to learn quantum mechanics, you have to strip to your raw, erase all the garbage from your brain, and start over again,' Prof. Emlyn Hughes said. Against a backdrop of 9/11 and Holocaust images, he remained in a fetal position as two people dressed as ninjas blindfolded stuffed animals."
This seems to be a new way to understand quantum mechanics...
But for some reason Steve Weinberg does not mention it in his lectures.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

The prof says you need to erase all the garbage from your brain - me thinks he has a lot of garbage to erase

wolfgang said...

I suspect he smoked a substance known to create many worlds in one's brain before this lecture.

Lee said...

I wonder what class he was teaching? He only had one hour to teach them quantum mechanics, so it definitely wasn't a class on quantum mechanics. Maybe philosophy?

wolfgang said...

Apparently it is called Frontiers in Science.

Btw Emlyn Hughes really is a physics prof.

Lee said...

>>it is called Frontiers in Science.

Oh, so it's a science appreciation class for liberal arts and humanities majors, analogous to the art appreciation class many science majors take. I guess I can understand why Prof. Hughes took his clothes off for a class like that.

wolfgang said...

>> a science appreciation class

I am sure students will appreciate science after that performance 8-)