Monday, October 10, 2005
Bose-Einstein Condensation is fascinating!
I went to the first of the Robb lectures tonight. This years Robb lecturer is Nobel Laureate, Professor Carl Wieman. Tonights lecture was "Bose-Einstein condensation: Quantum weirdness at the lowest temperature in the universe."
It was great! Bose-Einstein condensation is fascinating!!! I can't wait for the other two lectures.
I love learning new things, especially scientific new things, and especially physics so it seems. I have really enjoyed all the Robb lectures I have been to, but there is something about physics that makes me feel all bubbly and alive. I never realised it before, but wow! This is a bigger high than any of the gigs/concerts/parties I have been to in the past couple of years. Sometimes I wish I had studied physics to a higher level.
I was going to blog everything I learned, but it is quite a lot. So maybe later.
I wrote screeds of notes and decorated one hand and several pages with doodles.
Interesting thing: I can't possibly sit through an entire lecture without a pen and paper, or at the very least some sort of writing implement. If I am not writing notes, then I am doodling and decorating my notes and/or body with flowers and squiggly things.
It seems other people are different, especially physics type people. I couldn't see anyone else in the lecture theatre writing anything at all.
I used to think I wrote more and doodled more than other people because I couldn't concentrate or remember or wasn't as interested as everyone else, but someone recently told me that people who doodle and/or write when listening to a speaker are probably kinaesthetic thinkers/listeners. That is, they remember information better if they are doing something with their body (eg writing/doodling) at the same time. That makes perfect sense to me. I listen better and retain information better if I am also decorating something with flowers at the same time. For me, sitting through any speaker without a pen is torturous!
I'm not sure how I got so off topic, but here I am. I am not going to fix it, so I will just stop instead.
It was great! Bose-Einstein condensation is fascinating!!! I can't wait for the other two lectures.
I love learning new things, especially scientific new things, and especially physics so it seems. I have really enjoyed all the Robb lectures I have been to, but there is something about physics that makes me feel all bubbly and alive. I never realised it before, but wow! This is a bigger high than any of the gigs/concerts/parties I have been to in the past couple of years. Sometimes I wish I had studied physics to a higher level.
I was going to blog everything I learned, but it is quite a lot. So maybe later.
I wrote screeds of notes and decorated one hand and several pages with doodles.
Interesting thing: I can't possibly sit through an entire lecture without a pen and paper, or at the very least some sort of writing implement. If I am not writing notes, then I am doodling and decorating my notes and/or body with flowers and squiggly things.
It seems other people are different, especially physics type people. I couldn't see anyone else in the lecture theatre writing anything at all.
I used to think I wrote more and doodled more than other people because I couldn't concentrate or remember or wasn't as interested as everyone else, but someone recently told me that people who doodle and/or write when listening to a speaker are probably kinaesthetic thinkers/listeners. That is, they remember information better if they are doing something with their body (eg writing/doodling) at the same time. That makes perfect sense to me. I listen better and retain information better if I am also decorating something with flowers at the same time. For me, sitting through any speaker without a pen is torturous!
I'm not sure how I got so off topic, but here I am. I am not going to fix it, so I will just stop instead.
// posted by suze @ 9:29 PM 
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Question: Why do soccer club Fermi and club Bose never play a match against
each other?
Answer: They can't agree about the spin of the ball.
each other?
Answer: They can't agree about the spin of the ball.
Heisenberg is stopped by a traffic cop who askes: "Do you know how fast
you were going?"
Heisenberg replies: "No, but I know exactly where I am"
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"To understand something means to derive it from quantum mechanics, which nobody understands."
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OK, I'll shut up now :-)
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you were going?"
Heisenberg replies: "No, but I know exactly where I am"
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"To understand something means to derive it from quantum mechanics, which nobody understands."
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OK, I'll shut up now :-)
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