[Metal] Re: Hilbert's Hotel and Schrödinger's cat - Animation: 60 second adventures in... (from OU)

[Philip Moriarty]

As long as it's understood to be just a brief intro to the topic then it's fine, and certainly entertaining. I have deep qualms, however, about the "every concept, no matter how complex and intellectually challenging, can be explained in 60 seconds" meme: http://physicsfocus.org/philip-moriarty-perform-or-perish-guilty-confessions-of-a-youtube-physicist/

Philip

From: metal-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:metal-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of John Horton
Sent: 19 March 2015 09:17
To: Sally Hanford; metal at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Subject: [Metal] Re: Hilbert's Hotel and Schrödinger's cat - Animation: 60 second adventures in... (from OU)

Certainly very entertaining. That Hilbert was "friend of Albert Einstein and enemy of chambermaids the world over" is  a very funny line!

Good at setting the scene to those who know something about the topic. Might be hard going for those who have never been exposed to these problems before. It is all presented so quickly that it might be difficult to disentangle the humour from the problem. I suppose one just plays it again ...

From: metal-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:metal-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:metal-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Sally Hanford
Sent: 19 March 2015 08:57
To: metal at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:metal at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
Subject: [Metal] Hilbert's Hotel and Schrödinger's cat - Animation: 60 second adventures in... (from OU)

This is an interesting use of animation: 60 second adventures in... (from the Open University) tackles Hilbert's Hotel and Schrödinger's cat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zVaFjSxAZs
How effective do you think this technique is?
Regards
Sally
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