Actually, I am going to be a highschool physics teacher. My major is broad field science w/ physics. It is a major offered here at Marquette's college of education where instead of a full physics major it has a little bit more physics than a minor, plus through bio 3, chem 1 & 2 and Organic chemistry, and calc 1,2, and 3. Almost all of my electives are education classes.
I feel the same way about most of those shows, especially anything with Michio. He is incredibly smart but his shows are so dumbed down and fictionalized its crazy.
I know a lot of the stuff I was talking about was far fetched, and the alien thing was my brain on an all nighter. But there are aspects to physics and the universe as a whole that the human brain simply will never be able to wrap itself around. The concept of infinity itself is impossible to fully appreciate, as is the infinitely small, and that stuff is simple newtonian physics and calculus.
The thing is that the really crazy ones I mentioned are actually possibilities. Wormholes are not disallowed by the laws of physics, and that would allow you to get from point A to point B faster than light by taking a shortcut
I dont remember if it was you or somebody else who was saying that quantum effects take place in macroscopic objects, it made me laugh cause I remember our professor last year made us calculate the wavelength of a baseball being pitched at record speed and it was some insanely small number.
bumpin this thread in celebration of the higgs
