Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Prof strips, shows Hitler, 9/11 images to teach quantum mechanics





Yes, those are Nazi flags.




(Credit: Bwog Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)

It's very rare that taking your clothes off does any harm.




Often, it gets the distracted to pay attention and the numb to get excited.




This might well have been the genesis of the thought process belonging to Columbia University Professor Emlyn Hughes when he considered how to introduce his students to quantum mechanics.




As his audience became increasingly rapt, the professor stripped to his underwear, put on a black t-shirt, hoodie and pants, and curled up in the fetal position.




So all fairly normal thus far.




But then someone came out and put two toy puppies on stools that were on the stage.




A ninja proceeded to mutilate one of them with what looked like a samurai sword.




Was he done? Of course not. For then images of terror appeared on the screen.




Stalin, Saddam, Hitler, 9/11 -- all were projected at the students, while they offered cries such as "Yay! Physics!" and "What is happening?"




And then one of the students exclaimed that the professor had a gun. He did not. It was a microphone.




Through this, the professor explained: In order to learn quantum mechanics you have strip to your raw, erase all the garbage from your brain, and start all over agai... [Read more]










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