Re: [Phys-L] Physics prof strips down to underwear to teach QM

[Marty Weiss <martweiss@comcast.net>]

There are stunts, and then there are STUNTS.  Professors can plan stunts that enhance the point, not to entice and titillate.  If you want to show quantum confusion then build a box and put a cat inside (or a tape recording of a cat scratching or meowing).  They will remember the stunt and remember what it was meant to show.  Or get twins to come up front (staged in case there are no twins in the audience) and proceed to talk about the paradox.  Things that have to do with the lecture and make it interesting, yet memorable.  
 
On Feb 19, 2013, at 7:29 PM, John Clement wrote:

> The real embarassment should be that he did not understand that stunts do
> not enhance learning!  Stunts are stunts.  Rensselaer used to fly a rocket
> across the lecture hall (on a wire).  Everyone remembers the stunt, but not
> the point.  If he wanted to entice students to his lecture, he should have
> persuaded the previous lecturor to do a stunt, and imply that more would
> come.  If the stunt worked, I would be all for it!
>
> John M. Clement
> Houston, TX
>
> > What an embarrassment.  I haven't a clue what the guy was 
> > trying to accomplish by such idiotic tomfoolery, but I'm 
> > embarrassed for Columbia and embarrassed for the fool.
>
>
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