Open Letter to the President: Physics Education
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Dear Mr. President,Do you know much about physics? I mean, you're the President of the United States: a countrywith five thousand nuclear weapons, birthplace of the world's computing and telecommunicationsindustry, home of the first atomic clock and creator of the global positioning system.But chances are, if you just took regular American high school physics, you don't knowone iota about the science behind these things (No offense). That's because high school physicsstudents across most of America are not required to learn about pretty much any physical phenomenadiscovered or explained more recently than 1865. Yes, 1865. That's the year the civilwar ended and well over a decade before Albert Einstein was even born!You know what ...
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Dear Mr. President,Do you know much about physics? I mean, you're the President of the United States: a countrywith five thousand nuclear weapons, birthplace of the world's computing and telecommunicationsindustry, home of the first atomic clock and creator of the global positioning system.But chances are, if you just took regular American high school physics, you don't knowone iota about the science behind these things (No offense). That's because high school physicsstudents across most of America are not required to learn about pretty much any physical phenomenadiscovered or explained more recently than 1865. Yes, 1865. That's the year the civilwar ended and well over a decade before Albert Einstein was even born!You know what ...
