CB's Question of The Day

[cabenson]

What was/is your favorite subject in high school/secondary school?

My answer: Spanish

Comments

[aqua-blurr.livejournal.com]

Physics, hands down. It's the perfect blend of philosophy, science, imagination, and rigorous logic.

Every day we got confronted with another mystery:
-What if all matter can change into energy and vice versa? What if there is a finite amount of energy/matter?
-Is light a particle or a wave or something else?
-How can we prove the existence of something, much less the behavior of that thing, if we cannot test or experiment with it?
-What is the nature of time? What are the implications of Einstein's theory of relativity? That time is relative, the passage of time is relative to the individual entity, that time is malleable?

It was great.

[stargazer1960.livejournal.com]

Okay, as a physics teacher I have to say, "Thank you so very much!" Physics is all about toys . . . and mathematics. If you can stomach the mix, it is a scream.
Oh, and my brother taught history, which is about a bunch of old dead white guys.

[aqua-blurr.livejournal.com]

:) I think what I liked best about my HS and college physics instructors was that even though it would be soooo easy to each elementary physics as if it were all written in granite, stone-cold facts and formulas, they never did. I think every single one of them approached each topic as if it were still a hotly debated mystery and we were going to explore all the theories and ideas and decide for ourselves using logic and the scientific method. Go physics teachers!