Hermit Weekend
Due to an injury, I’m stuck at home for the weekend. I’m just hoping that my forced hermit status is going to lead to some nice introspection and maybe some good lesson plans. But so far, all I’ve done is listened to This American LIfe and Studio 360, developed an obsession with Spore and determined that the Stock Market and Quantum Physics are similar in that in the Stock Market you can buy and sell stocks without the actual stocks, and in Quantum Physics you can only determine the velocity or the location of a particle but never both at the same time, which leads to some confusion as to whether or not the particle exists in the first place.
Both the experts from the Stock Market and the Physics Labs assure me that the stocks exist, as do the particles, but we just don’t understand how. I really just think that the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principal reminds me mostly of my students: I might know where they are in space, but the more I know about WHERE they are the less I know about where they are GOING. The more I know about where they are GOING, the harder it is to pin them down where they actually are. This is best illustrated when trying to round them up after recess.
