[TheForge] Michelson's and Morley's experiment

[Daniel Kretchmar]

I like it most days. This is my 11th year.  One year in Chicago and 10 years in 
Minnesota. It was like two different worlds. and you are right...somedays you 
just gotta go in the shop and hit things.  

6th grades are docile true, but 7th graders have just enough english and math 
skill to do real science.

8th graders have hormones so there is no point in even talking to them

Daniel Kretchmar
www.irontreeworks.com

Isn't sanity really just a one trick pony, anyway? I mean, all you get is one 
trick, rational thinking! But when you're good and crazy�ooh hoo hoo hoo�the 
sky's the limit! 
The Tick


Quoting Andy Vida <osan@netlabs.net>:

> 
> 
> Daniel Kretchmar wrote:
> >
> >      If we are going to be specific, Michelson's and Morley's experiment
> proved
> > that they could not detect the aether.
> 
> 	This is a critical point.  In fact, they didn't even prove
> 	that much.  They proved that their particular experiment
> 	could not detect it.  Could others?  That will only be known
> 	for certain when one succeeds.  Negative propositions are
> 	inherently unprovable, at least as far as anyone knows.
> 
> > (Its amazing where you finally get to use information from taking a course
> > in "The History of Twentieth Century Physics". I have yet to use it in my
> > classroom where I teach middle school science :)
> 
> 	Holy crap!  You're either a very brave soul, nuts, or some
> 	kind of mega masochist... or perhaps a subtle combination
> 	of all three...
> 
> 	I taught a year in middle school.  The sixth graders were
> 	still very docile and listened... the seventh graders were
> 	absolutely off the wall insane.  Eight graders were better,
> 	but not by that much.  Of course, this was a borderline
> 	ghetto school in Brooklyn.
> 
> 	I would say my year in a middle school shaved as many
> 	years off me as the other two in high schools, maybe a
> 	bit more.  It was my last in the NYC public school system,
> 	thanks be to the gods.
> 
> 	No wonder you're a blacksmith.  At the ends of those days
> 	I needed something to beat on, too.  Many times I wanted
> 	it to be a student, but that wasn't doable, so hot iron
> 	sufficed well enough. :)
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