A visit with Sir Issac

Thanks to George Girton, (a colleague from many years ago with a penchant for revision control systems, long before they were generally popular), I've learned that the Huntington Library (map) is hosting an exhibit about Newton through June 12.

This is really interesting and I think Jon will really enjoy it.

Even at his age, he's been exposed to so much of classical (Newtonian) physics. I think we can spend a bit of time poking around, discussing how revolutionary his ideas were and how significant and long term the effects were. Observation becomes revelation becomes mathematical proof.

And a little later, I can suggest the impossible, that Sir Issac wasn't entirely correct and a whole new way to describe the world was created in the last century. Because we haven't found a way to describe it to kids (or existing adults), we don't really talk about it. We're working on math for the non functional rather than trying to make Quantum Mechanics concepts easy for kids.

And in some ways, it's so darned easy. Make the kids familiar with boolean concepts and many of the ideas of quantum math are obvious. The hard part is jamming it into a world of analog observation.