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You have a good point, but still, it's easier to explain to children stuff that makes sense. I teach my children that we live in a sea of energy and that you c
by bronlund 10y ago
You have a good point, but still, it's easier to explain to children stuff that makes sense.
I teach my children that we live in a sea of energy and that you can feel it when you move. It makes much more sense to them than trying explain inertia.
I tell them that of you rotate something, it will make an energy vortex making stuff seem heavier - and I show them with a gyroscope.
Then I explain that electrons are just like little gyroscopes, but of only energy. And it all makes sense to them. They don't think it's hard at all.
- pjc50 10y agoThose are excellent metaphors which I've never heard anywhere else.
- matthewmcg 10y agoThey're reminiscent of Feynman's anecdote about his father explaining inertia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zjm8JeDKvdc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zjm8JeDKvdc
- phee 10y ago"That - he said - nobody knows". It's kind of different from "we live in a sea of energy". I honestly think inertia is a lot easier to grasp than energy. It's a phenomenon you can experiment, describe and name, energy is more abstract.
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- JoeAltmaier 10y agoHm. Children can learn the right terminology for things. Those words don't seem any easier to swallow than 'inertia' and 'charge' to me.