Paul Dirac (center) with Director Robert Oppenheimer (left) and Abraham Pais (right), Professor in the School of Mathematics (1950–63), during afternoon tea at the Institute For Advanced Study, November 1947.
"Anytime you try to teach the subjects without teachers who love the subject, it is doomed to failure and is a foolish thing to do."
Remembering physicist and professor Richard Feynman who was famous for his easy-to-understand explanations of scientific concepts.
There is a type of quasiparticle, called a semi-Dirac fermion, that exists in a bizarre state where it has mass when moving in one direction but is massless when moving in a perpendicular direction.
First predicted 16 years ago, physicists finally observed this behaviour in 2024 within a crystal of zirconium silicon sulfide (ZrSiS).
Werner Heisenberg escaped to the island of Helgoland in 1925 to get relief from hay fever. There, in complete isolation, he developed matrix mechanics—the first version of quantum mechanics. Allergies changed physics.
The first and most important quality of all scientific ways of thinking must be the clear distinction between the outer object of observation and the subjective nature of the observer.
-- Max Planck
Year 12 have been working hard experimentally determining the order of reaction, it isn't an easy task! A few also recorded themselves to help prepare when it comes to carrying out their IAs, I feel an IB Chemistry vlog in the works...👩🔬 @DrCourtDGS
8A have been testing for different gases 🔥 last years record for the most times a splint would relight was smashed! A total of 17 times this year 🤯 @DrCourtDGS
DGS gardeners in action...this week and last, the team were clearing leaves and other debris out of the school pond and surrounding area...@DartfordGS@DGSSciCollege@DrCourtDGS