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Re: Is competence in physics as a requirement for teachers




On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, LUDWIK KOWALSKI wrote:

David's observation "the better one becomes at proving they are doing a
good job, the less incentive they [teachers] have to actually do a better
job" is another example of the uncertainty principle.


Ludwik is being flippant again. Whatever uncertainty principle he's
refering to here, it certainly *isn't* the Heisenberg uncertainty
principle, which manifests itself observably only in quantum interactions.

Unless he's refering to *very* small teachers operating in small
classrooms for extremely brief times.

-- Donald



Faculty are a form of Bose-Einstein condensate. This is seen to its
best advantage in the capillary action that occurs during a Senate
meeting. This is a macroscopic quantum effect.

I suppose retirement can then be viewed as a type of tunnelling . . .

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