November 21, 2009
13:20
COACH'S CORNER
November 11, 2009
18:10
COACH'S CORNER
November 4, 2009
13:30
COACH'S CORNER
Q: So, coach, your clock management needs work, right?
B: Yep, Q, it does. I hope that the fans are getting their money's worth and while they were not exactly on their feet, you could feel the electricity. But, the clock's an enemy, Q.
Q: But, anyway... a new season. More science, more art...more opportunities for you to insert both feet into your mouth in 2 hours.
B: Can't you even be pleasant at the beginning of a season?
Q: My job: you report, I decide.
B: That's Foxy, Q.
November 1, 2009
20:10
COACH'S CORNER
Q: So, coach, a new season for Evening College?
B: Yep, Q. New thing. Going to try to play an up-tempo game this season. Remember, this season is a sprint, we have to believe in ourselves and can't leave anything on the field.
Q: B, that's a tall order for for a non-physicists.
B: It's about life, Q. It's about life, not just...a game. Turnovers, though, will be key.
Q: B, you know, you've not gotten any easier to understand in a year.
B: So right you are, Q.
13:20
COACH'S CORNER
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Q: Are you NUTS?! Maxwells Equations???
B: Watch it, Q. I created you and I can erase you and you'll be replaced by a more popular letter. q: Sorry...hey, no longer capitalized?? B: I warned you, so now you're gone. R: So, relatively speaking, I seem to be moving up in the world and Q seems to be moving down, right? B; Um...In a matter of speaking. But, to me your brain seems to be running slow and your caliber is shrinking. R: I think that your animosity towards Q has not disappeared entirely. B: Right you are, R. ("Are, R..." that cracks me up) R: Well, I think you could be nicer. B: And I could trade you in for a vowel. Do you want to talk about Einstein? R: Well, ...no. I have no energy. B: That's where you're wrong, R. You've got mass, so you've got energy...just rest energy. R: That's what I said, B. The rest of my energy is gone. B: You know that S is in the wings, and that U is eager. R: You ARE eager, R, not you IS eager. See? B: c - squared, R. |
November 11, 2009
18:10
COACH'S CORNER
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Q: Well, Galileo always surprises doesn't he?
B: So right you are, Q. He was a scrappy player with a passion for the game - the spark plug, a leader on and off the field. Q: A little intense, though, B. B: Yep. A warrior with staying power. |
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Q: But, otherwise, now you've done it. They
think you're nuts.
B: You think it really took them this long? Look, take any object in front of you - Q, pick up your crayon - then shove it along the table, let go, and watch it slide a bit, and then stop. Now, think to yourself, "Self...this shows that an object will continue to move forever without anything pushing it." Q: Now, I think you've lost it. B: No, people must have thought Galileo had lost it. Except those (who we'll talk about next) who got the point... The Point: There are regularities in nature which are not apparent to the senses. In order to lay bare those Universalities, we have to postulate or act as if, there exists a "perfect" place where a variety of realistic, but irritating conditions do not appear. We have to postulate a perfect world to understand our complicated world. We have to deal with our world as a set of little additions of imperfections onto the almost more real perfect world. This is a huge jump in the ability to do science. It's also almost completely indefensible without a new kind of thinking and a wholly new philosophy of nature. There is no wonder why Aristotle talked the way he did about motion...it seems like common sense. Heraclitus was right...there is change and irregularity all around us. Parmenides was right...you cannot trust your senses and he was right about there being uniformity. What nobody had realized was that ...you need more than your immediate senses to find that regularity. While very different enterprises, I don't think it's outrageous to view painting and physics as similar in this respect: they both involve observation of a very sophisticated sort and a Representation of the particulars of experience in a careful way designed to express uniformities which underly the world. Q: B, no cute sports analogies today? B: No. I don't want anyone to lose sight of just how important this is and how amazing this intellectual achievement is. This win was no fluke. Q: Too bad about your watch, B. B: Yeah...into overtime again. The crowd is very polite, aren't they. |
November 4, 2009
13:30
COACH'S CORNER
Q: So, coach, your clock management needs work, right?
B: Yep, Q, it does. I hope that the fans are getting their money's worth and while they were not exactly on their feet, you could feel the electricity. But, the clock's an enemy, Q.
Q: But, anyway... a new season. More science, more art...more opportunities for you to insert both feet into your mouth in 2 hours.
B: Can't you even be pleasant at the beginning of a season?
Q: My job: you report, I decide.
B: That's Foxy, Q.
November 1, 2009
20:10
COACH'S CORNER
Q: So, coach, a new season for Evening College?
B: Yep, Q. New thing. Going to try to play an up-tempo game this season. Remember, this season is a sprint, we have to believe in ourselves and can't leave anything on the field.
Q: B, that's a tall order for for a non-physicists.
B: It's about life, Q. It's about life, not just...a game. Turnovers, though, will be key.
Q: B, you know, you've not gotten any easier to understand in a year.
B: So right you are, Q.