Another video which I downloaded from the web, then placed in my DropBox Public Folder, and copied the link and pasted it above.
Teaching something as abstract as a Higgs Boson has to be about as tough as any educational task that might come along….so I was interested in how some had taken on that challenge.
This video, produced by FermiLabs would presumably have plenty of funding behind it, but who knows. In any event, the setup is your basic green screen: talking body/ head shot in front of a green screen background which is used to drop in graphics.
The speaker, who could use a different mustache, is mostly in front of a blackboard, which is only virtually there. What if, someone was drawing on a white board, and we captured that video, and then dropped it in as background for our own green screen talking body/ head?
I think I’m finally understanding a bit of what the Higgs Boson is. For my parents generation basic was the atom and I learned the basic matter the proton and electron and neutron. That’s out. Now it’s the electron, the up quark, and the down quark.
Via the magic of online up to date information, voila, I’m in the know. Until the next theory of the really basic basic particles takes over. We need some way to keep learning. Which the web seems pretty good at.
And another point that comes up. Should every American student know the basic building blocks of matter? And Higgs Bosons? Well, I’d say yes, it’s need to know for everyone. But obviously there’s a limit to how much of this kind of science can be taught in the time available, or with the math available to non specialists.
Still, gravity is kind of important.