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Two years ago, I had my interview at the Day School and I used this as my teaching guide. I’m so happy it worked out So, here is the presentation on light that I gave in class today. May 4 is a special day for me!

I’m not jealous that he is a much better teacher than I am (yeah, right!), but I am jealous of his awesome editing skills… YouTube – Fun Science: Light Go watch and enjoy (and learn). Thanks SO much to Alyssa for sharing!! Do let me know if you see any vids that compliment our lessons [...]

NASA – A Supermassive Black Hole: “The colorful zigzag provides the evidence. If no black hole were present, the line would be nearly vertical. The Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph measured a velocity of 880,000 mph within 26 light-years of the galaxy’s center. This measurement allowed astronomers to calculate that the black hole contains at least [...]

We’ll talk more about photons and the Bose-Einstein Condensate in the Spring, but this is pretty exciting news… New kind of light created in physics breakthrough – Technology & science – Science – LiveScience – msnbc.com: “Physicists have created a new kind of light by chilling photons into a blob state.” Enjoy the break but [...]

Thanks to Evan for the link (make sure to watch the Carl Sagan video from Cosmos below)… Cosmonaut Sergi Avdeyev: By the time his stint in space was over, he had experienced 0.2 seconds less than the rest of the world did. This made him 0.2 seconds younger than he would have been if he [...]

We touched on this when discussing photons in the last quarter of the year… Quantum teleportation achieved over 16 km: “Scientists in China have succeeded in teleporting information between photons further than ever before. They transported quantum information over a free space distance of 16 km (10 miles), much further than the few hundred meters [...]

Here is a link to the presentation I had for you in class today: http://public.iwork.com/document/?a=p103636129&d=Light.key Make sure to review slides 18 and 19!