Talk:Plum pudding model: Difference between revisions

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:::::::I think the underlying response to your remark above is that "hindsight is 20/20". That's to say that as we look back at the historical science record, we already know the outcome -- the facts, the scientific laws, the failings of others, and such. So, we shed from our lesson plans those things that don't give a direct line of sight to the "solution" of any given science problem. Perhaps we've cut too much philosophy from science education today.

:::::::I vividly recall a theoretical electrical engineering professor I did research with back in Dallas who was excited as a bright-eyed kid in a candy store to come up to me after my seminar on my doctoral research to tell me that he was reminded so much of all the exciting physical chemistry lectures he attended in the 60s and 70s. He said my work was too important to ignore but no one today will care about it because students just want nicely wrapped answers. [[User:Tjlafave|TJ LaFave]] ([[User talk:Tjlafave|talk]]) 20:01, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

::::::::What do your students think of this article and [[Rutherford scattering experiments]]? [[User:Kurzon|Kurzon]] ([[User talk:Kurzon|talk]]) 16:02, 7 October 2024 (UTC)

::::::Also I remember what the Internet was like in the 1990s, Wikipedia f*cking amazing compared to what I had back then. I don't think the Internet is dumbing us down and making us less empathetic, I think it does the opposite. [[User:Kurzon|Kurzon]] ([[User talk:Kurzon|talk]]) 19:59, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

:::::::I'm pointing to the internet being dumbed down too much. Social media is king today.