One Day When I Was 8 Years

To Understand The Difficulty Of Predicting The Next 100 Years, We Have To Appreciate The Difficulty That The People Of 1900 Had In Predicting The World Of 2000.

The River Of Time May Fork Into Rivers, In Which Case You Have A Parallel Reality And So Then You Can Become A Time Traveler And Not Have To Worry About Causing A Time Paradox.

We Need More Concept-development And Active Involvement, Less Tuning Forks, Pulleys, And Friction Formulas - Students Know They'll Never Use Those. They Need More Study Of Outer Space And Dna. They Need More Exciting Teaching, More Fair-minded Encouragement, More Career Guidance, More Mentorship. Both Students And Teachers Need More Feedback. It Would Help If We Stopped Protecting Bad Teachers - It's Very Difficult To Get Rid Of Even Sexual Perverts Let Alone Just Bad Teachers.

When I Was 16 Years Old, I Assembled A 2.3 Million Electron Volt Beta Particle Accelerator. I Went To Westinghouse, I Got 400 Pounds Of Translator Steel, 22 Miles Of Copper Wire, And I Assembled A 6-kilowatt, 2.3 Million Electron Accelerator In The Garage.

We Physicists Don't Like To Admit It, But Some Of Us Are Closet Science Fiction Fans. We Hate To Admit It Because It Sounds Undignified. But When We Were Children, That's When We Got Interested In Science, For A Lot Of Us.