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It’s taken its time, but…
Just take a look at the photograph above and think about what it could be. Disco lights, you might thing? Well if you did, you’d be wrong.
In fact, the photograph above is a single light source, viewed through a series of diffraction gratings during a Physics lesson just before half term, and stands as evidence of my Physics teacher’s reassuring words to me at the beginning of the year, when he said to me (non verbatim) “it happens to quite a lot of people, about halfway through the year you’ll suddenly think “I get it”". And I did.
But why mention this now? Well the answer is simple – I don’t just get Physics now. I understand Physics. And, as I have discovered by studying cosmology in my current A-level module, I now enjoy Physics!
Because I enjoy it and understand it, I am confidant that I can now commit myself that little bit more and turn my abysmal AS-level results around to get at the very least a C in A-level Physics – something I am sure even Boris Johnson would commend.
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Physics is a wonderful subject! I describes most of how the world (indeed, the universe!) works, and can be genuinely fascinating.
When I went to Secondary School, our physics teacher ran an after-school Science Club, which I enjoyed attending. We covered such diverse topics as the Weston Pulley Block, Schlieren tests in wind tunnels, how a piano produces sound, and a trip to the Science Museum in London one Saturday. Oh, yes — and diffraction gratings, of course…
It was a great time, and I look back on that period with considerable fondness. You are lucky, in that you have so much still ahead of you. Enjoy it!
As much as I fully agree with your above sentiments, I must make a slight correction which makes the entire field of Physics that much more interesting:
Physics is indeed a wonderful subject! It describes most of presently accepted and perceived theories of how the world (indeed, the universe!) works and is genuinely fascinating.
In essence, Physics is a subject of informed guess work and multiple possibilities. Theories we believe to be true today may be disproved tomorrow (and there is, in fact, one Physicist who is trying to disprove Sir Isaac Newton).
Just as long as you can provide sufficient evidence to support your theory, it stands a good chance of being embraced by the Physics community until someone new can come along and provide sufficient evidence to disprove it. And let’s not get started on the multiple possibilities of cosmological expansion and the ultimate fate of the universe…
I know how fortunate I am to have so many years ahead of me (I hope), and am determined to dedicate my life to the service of my Country, with a career in the Armed Services and then Politics my overall aim.
For now, though, I am happy to just report the news between my studies, rather than make it…
I really hope you’re joking.
Physics is perhaps THE dullest subject around. I fell asleep in that video about Dark Matter and Dark Energy.
How on earth can you fine Mr H waffling on interesting?!?!
And come on Alan, physics is about as useful as a Tory government!!!!
Of course I am not joking, Rob.
Although the video was boring second time round, Mr H’s waffling can sometimes be interesting.
And you prove my point with your final comment about the usefulness of a Tory government.