Weekend Physics with Baby

Quanumachanics iz splainin liddle stuffs, eben liddler en adoms. Lecdrons en fodons en quarks en stuff. Iz diffrin kines a feeries boudid, bud deres loss es greed boud.

One feery boud quanumachanics is quanumfeelsdeary. Quanumfeelsdeary iz boud ebberfins a feel en pardicles iz juss a llusion cuz ub a ways a feels innerack. Like a lecdrons ony a feel ub negadibidy. Deres nod really a lecdron. Das how come quanumachanics haz a deal wif em like days wabes en pardicles boff ad ones. Fodons izza same. A fodon izza liddless lighd kin hab. Das whad quanumz boud. Lossa big times go man finded deres liddless mounds ub energy kin beed en den was called quanum fer one en quana fer loss. Das a quanum leap, a liddless shange ub energy es kin beed steada da biggess peoples ting id iz. Sos a liddless lighd iz a fodon en iz a lecdrocanical pardicle wabe. Iz a wabe when lookin ad id fer wherez id goin, bud acks like a pardicle when bangs inna sumfin.

Deres nudder feeries boud quanum az less em stayed pardicles en wabes boff, en deres feeries as makes em sdrings in nudder menshuns. Das fer nudder talkin, dough.

Weekend Physics

(LJ seems to be acting up today – fortunately I write in an editor and post from there so if LJ is broke I don't lose it.)

Baby's lectures this weekend were impressive. Totally incomprehensible unless you know the math, but impressive. Punk was left dazed and confused (grin). Baby thinks she's teaching Punk, but the real benefit is keeping her head working – if she isn't constantly learning or working with a subject she forgets it completely. There is no way I want to have to get her to relearn all this stuff, since she already knows a lot more than I do. Her textbooks look like gobbledy-gook to me, but she seems to understand them well enough to pass exams (she writes a lot clearer than she speaks). For her the study of physics – both quantum and classical – is a game, not reality. She loves the math and has no trouble with the apparent paradoxes of particle theories. Tell her something is both a particle and a wave and she happily accepts it. Time dilation? No problem – two clocks each see the other as running slow, that's okay. Although "time" itself is a very fuzzy subject to her – she only really uses "now" and "not now". She does have "times" for the passage of time, but that's a relative term, sometimes modified by big or little (big times, little times). That may be a help in the case of time dilation – no problem if something she doesn't have a strong preconception of changes depending on movement or nearness to gravity wells.

The stuff I post about her "lessons" are really just where she starts. I have to edit them slightly because she doesn't break between words often, so a sentence often comes out of the computer looking like one giant word. It takes time to figure out where the breaks should be, so I only do the "overview" part.

I'm supposed to be working.

Bye for now.