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Department of Physics
Departmental Colloquium: Konopinski Lecture Series
October 27, 2004
4:00 pm in Swain West 119
Tea at 3:30 pm in SW113
Speaker: Leon Lederman, Fermilab
Title: Progress and the lack
thereof in the reform of US science education (Neither have we found Higgs nor the Theory of Everything!)
Abstract:
We have been active for about 10 years in trying to modernize the ~100 year old science curricula of US
high schools. This is a dramatic illustration of invariance of the “system” to transformations from the
19th to the 21st century. Whenever we have a symmetry, Noether’s Theorem tells us we can be sure that the
mediocrity is conserved as is the popular ignorance of how science works. We will detail efforts to break
the symmetry, but it will not be spontaneous.
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