presentation to iop yorkshire's stimulating physics workshop. january 7 2015
TRANSCRIPT
1. Philip Moriarty School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Nottingham [email protected] @Moriarty2112 Guilty confessions of a YouTube physicist 2. The power of YouTube www.youtube.com/sixtysymbols www.bradyharan.com 3. The power of YouTube 2,250,650 4. The power of YouTube 5. Beyond preaching to the converted http://periodicvideos.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/metallizing-phi-by-phil-moriarty.html 6. Beyond preaching to the converted http://monstersofgrok.com/ http://physicsfocus.org/philip-moriarty-when-the-uncertainty-principle-goes-up-to-11/ 7. can also preach to the choir 8. The day job Resolution Frontiers, Physics World Nov. 2010 http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/indepth/44336 [Thanks to T. Trevethan (via L. Kantorovich) for the video] 9. The vagaries of vacuum 10. 1 00 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 Mechanochemistry An atomic difference engine? 11. Sweetman et al, PRL 106 136101 (2011); PRB 84 085426 (2011); Beilstein J. Nanotech. (2012); Toggling single bonds 12. Humanising scientists 13. But 14. I feel really smart now 15. .but any substantial leap in my understanding of physics has come not when Ive felt smart but when Ive felt stupid. Really stupid. 16. Explanation alone is not education. Entertainment is not education. http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/ great-lecture-what-was-it-about-again/2004222.article 17. Pseudoteaching? Frank Noschese High School physics teacher, New York 18. Peer instruction 19. Some concepts are just plain difficult 20. Einstein said some very clever things in his time. This is not one of them.