View Full Version : Quantum Mechanics...the Ivy Way
http://news.yahoo.com/columbia-prof-strips-shows-9-11-tape-during-021232869.html
FirstClass
02-19-2013, 21:30
"A female student watching Hughes could be heard repeating, "What is happening?" as the performance went on."
She hit the nail on the head. Her reaction is exactly how physicists feel about quantum machanics. Obviously the professor's methods are legitamate.
Trapper John
02-19-2013, 21:45
Perhaps the good professor originally planned to use a cat in a box with poison and ask the students to postulate whether the cat was dead or alive to make the teaching point. The University IACUC disapproved the lesson plan so this was his alternative. :munchin
Universities are committed to maintaining a climate of academic freedom, in which the faculty members are given the widest possible latitude in their teaching and scholarship. However, the freedoms traditionally accorded the faculty carry corresponding responsibilities."
It added, "While one must exercise caution in judging excerpts from a lecture or short presentations from an entire course outside of their full context, the appropriate academic administrators are currently reviewing the facts of this particular presentation in quantum mechanics."
That university's administration would have to live in the alternate reality of liberal collegiate academics to have the temerity to provide tentative support to this "professor" and try to rationalize him stripping down to his tighty whities/banana hammock and stabbing stuffed toys in front of his students, as having any redeeming value in a class on quantum physics...
More likely, this cat just likes exposing himself to college coeds and "shanking" stuffed animals...I give him two years before they find him hanging from his door knob in an autoerotic asphyxiation session gone bad...
Wasn't this depicted in an episode of the big bang theory?
Only it was an awards ceremony and not a class lecture. :p