tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post8158754412258205645..comments2023-09-27T07:44:19.769-04:00Comments on Sabine Hossenfelder: Backreaction: What is Physics? [Video]Sabine Hossenfelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-20797549744439811632017-02-09T02:56:05.917-05:002017-02-09T02:56:05.917-05:00"I've tried to teach the girls English, b..."I've tried to teach the girls English, but they're not interested. And I'm not interested enough in teaching to push hard. They'll learn it soon enough. "<br /><br />The best, and simplest, way to learn a new language is to watch TV or movies in that language. If you want your kids to learn a foreign language, put them in front of the screen. There is a very deep divideRob van Son (Not a physicist, just an amateur)https://www.blogger.com/profile/12611755507524401026noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-62454701268241774012017-02-08T10:35:58.027-05:002017-02-08T10:35:58.027-05:00Hi Sabine,
I agree pushing would be very wrong. I...Hi Sabine,<br /><br />I agree pushing would be very wrong. If they are in the age of reading (even a little), I suggest you try to put captions on in English. That's the way my daughters did for maybe 2 months or so; after that it was just for me :)<br /><br />Best,<br />J.akidbellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12292741599925116131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-23225500186801961572017-02-06T03:57:55.339-05:002017-02-06T03:57:55.339-05:00I agree that pushing is not good. That's the ...I agree that pushing is not good. That's the advantage of starting at birth; all languages are on an equal footing. At some point they realize that some people speak only one language. But that is no different than discovering that other people differ from their parents in other ways as well. :-)<br />Phillip Helbighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12067585245603436809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-77635537382567130062017-02-05T06:59:14.220-05:002017-02-05T06:59:14.220-05:00akidbelle,
They do watch English cartoons, prefer...akidbelle,<br /><br />They do watch English cartoons, preferably Peppa Pig and Shaun the Sheep. It's kinda interesting - they watch the full thing and I'm perfectly sure they understand parts of it, but they claim they don't. <br /><br />I have seen this also the other way 'round - we have a relative whose son insists he doesn't speak German, even though his mother does. I am Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-32546522737881125612017-02-05T06:28:08.556-05:002017-02-05T06:28:08.556-05:00Hi Sabine,
I noticed my girls were very intereste...Hi Sabine,<br /><br />I noticed my girls were very interested in English when it came to watching cartoons and funny TV shows... we lived in the US at that time. <br /><br />Best,<br />J.akidbellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12292741599925116131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-18563173445058277702017-02-03T09:23:41.801-05:002017-02-03T09:23:41.801-05:00"If they're not interested, it's prob...<i>"If they're not interested, it's probably too late. Or you need a lot of discipline on your part."</i><br /><br />That will make you a busy Bee. :-D<br />Phillip Helbighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12067585245603436809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-46329183325044083182017-02-03T09:22:41.102-05:002017-02-03T09:22:41.102-05:00If they're not interested, it's probably t...If they're not interested, it's probably too late. Or you need a lot of discipline on your part. One really has to start shortly after birth, to make it effortless. (My two youngest children are trilingual. We actually started out with five languages, but cut it back to three when the older one didn't talk at all even when he was three years old. We later learned that this had Phillip Helbighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12067585245603436809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-83042064386618223402017-02-03T08:18:33.306-05:002017-02-03T08:18:33.306-05:00I've tried to teach the girls English, but the...I've tried to teach the girls English, but they're not interested. And I'm not interested enough in teaching to push hard. They'll learn it soon enough. <br /><br />Having said that, my English used to be pretty miserable, but six years in North America have softened the edges. As I keep telling myself, at least that means my post-doccing was good for something ;)Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-58443828929461647172017-02-03T06:18:09.375-05:002017-02-03T06:18:09.375-05:00I agree. One needs pretty good fluency to teach c...I agree. One needs pretty good fluency to teach children a language, but I'm sure Bee's English is good enough. It might take some determinism to switch so late, though.<br />Phillip Helbighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12067585245603436809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-68556099404105066232017-02-02T15:00:25.279-05:002017-02-02T15:00:25.279-05:00Bee, your English is very strong. Please raise you...Bee, your English is very strong. Please raise your kids to be as comfortable with English as they are German. It's not too late and they will thank you for it one day.Marcus Blackfellowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02076282244438618177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-24625822864000360512017-02-02T06:33:31.278-05:002017-02-02T06:33:31.278-05:00Hi Sabine, I'll play the bad guy with this one...Hi Sabine, I'll play the bad guy with this one:<br /><br />Physics is the art of wording ignorance in the form of principles.<br /><br />Best,<br />J.akidbellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12292741599925116131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-23630530079770011422017-01-31T10:40:34.102-05:002017-01-31T10:40:34.102-05:00Hi Unknown - FWIW Natural Selection probably doesn...Hi Unknown - FWIW Natural Selection probably doesn't work by screening out but screening in. The human perception is that of screening out because, for example human perception itself, involves conscious decisions about filtering, which is something that as a subject to talk about tends to come up much more frequently in contexts where the focus of the subject is negative (about screening Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00627605068166179204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-86721813329898777862017-01-31T09:54:01.825-05:002017-01-31T09:54:01.825-05:00Only on the testimony of personal experience, your...Only on the testimony of personal experience, your career in physics or whatever, is not 'out-of-the-box' advantageous in your child's challenge to learn it. Talking here, we could spend as much time as we wanted unpacking all the reasons why that is, but for the most part the reasons are intuitively obvious, so I'm going to skip to the also intuitively obvious solution: To be an Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00627605068166179204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-41597277622218987172017-01-31T02:18:26.022-05:002017-01-31T02:18:26.022-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.MarkusMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03431499396962852389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-68922628679172445932017-01-30T14:27:38.333-05:002017-01-30T14:27:38.333-05:00@Unknown: Physics, definition - Viam sapientiae mu...@Unknown: Physics, definition - <i>Viam sapientiae mundi, per quam pervenitur.</i><br /><br />@MarkusM: Said cow is also homogeneous, isotropic, uncharged, irrotational, and fermionic. You got bosonic cows, you got bad troubles in your milking shed.<br />Uncle Alhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05056804084187606211noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-70290770977190990622017-01-30T07:06:23.404-05:002017-01-30T07:06:23.404-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.MarkusMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03431499396962852389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-68566116153039314642017-01-29T22:53:45.350-05:002017-01-29T22:53:45.350-05:00A wag might also say:
"a physicist is someo...A wag might also say: <br /><br />"a physicist is someone who thrived & flourished through 2 years and 3 volumes of the 'Feynman Lectures on Physics' "<br /><br />;-)<br /><br />-- TomHUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14136922143569965933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-56537038093385797032017-01-29T12:06:44.423-05:002017-01-29T12:06:44.423-05:00Your circular representation of the cosmic scale i...Your circular representation of the cosmic scale is awesome, Bee. This is the best description of the reality of physics and the universe I have ever seen. Great job.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-88547200879098436562017-01-29T10:08:18.874-05:002017-01-29T10:08:18.874-05:00@Unknown: Free fall velocity in a medium: Bodies ...@Unknown: Free fall velocity in a medium: Bodies do not accelerate as they fall (aside from an initial perturbation).Uncle Alhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05056804084187606211noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-28871496639712450402017-01-28T06:40:27.339-05:002017-01-28T06:40:27.339-05:00I remember an occasion (long ago) when my small so...I remember an occasion (long ago) when my small son asked me what I was doing ( I was writing physics lectures). <br />"What is physics?" <br />Well, am I ever glad that kid asked! <br />I took my pen, and I said, "watch it drop," and I dropped it, all the way to the floor. <br />I asked him, "Did it speed up as it fell, or, did it fall with constant speed?" <brUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08363770435343791235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-4652667063173322382017-01-28T06:33:36.315-05:002017-01-28T06:33:36.315-05:00I didn't learn electrodynamics from Jackson, t...I didn't learn electrodynamics from Jackson, though it sits on my shelf. I learned it from a local prof's lecture notes, which I still have and still use (thought they're out of print - a shame, they were really good). Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-78505272908120072542017-01-28T06:04:52.097-05:002017-01-28T06:04:52.097-05:00A physicist, is someone who learned her electromag...A physicist, is someone who learned her electromagnetic theory from Jackson. (I didn't; I'm just an astronomer. However, I did TEACH Jackson, for three years!)Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08363770435343791235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-9909373603643008872017-01-28T01:01:17.423-05:002017-01-28T01:01:17.423-05:00Giotis,
Well, yes, but that would have required m...Giotis,<br /><br />Well, yes, but that would have required me to explain what mathematics is and that's even more challenging... Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-82858905768509663102017-01-26T21:11:11.097-05:002017-01-26T21:11:11.097-05:00I remember learning what physics was; it was the s...I remember learning what physics was; it was the science of how pool balls bounced around when you hit one with the cue. You could just as easily say that physics is the study of what happens when your foot hits a football. That gets you energy, momentum, velocity and so on, all in a way anyone can understand. The scaling stuff, the different forces, the probabilistic behavior and so on are just Kaleberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05283840743310507878noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-19913761460378577802017-01-26T13:56:03.974-05:002017-01-26T13:56:03.974-05:00Neat!
Isn't theoretical Physics constrained M...Neat!<br /><br />Isn't theoretical Physics constrained Mathematics?<br /><br />As for the video, I think your avatar does not do justice to your beauty, I would prefer a live appearance in that sense:)Giotishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01538762241438887298noreply@blogger.com