Grandview Heights High School & The Oppenheimer Strain Experiment

ABOUT the VIDEO About the PHYSICS BEHIND THE SCENES - BEXLEY Physics In Trouble HOW DID THEY DO IT? The Worm in the Wormhole Time Machine Bexley Photo Gallery 2008 Innovation Award Nominees Local Business Support The_Problem Marshall Barnes Brings The Reality Of Fringe to Life National Lab Day IS A REAL MASSIVE DYNAMIC POSSIBLE? Tech Companies Support National Lab Day #1 NLDScientist Bettering Our Schools? NLDHubble NLD Grandview Heights NLD Light Refraction Grandview Heights High School and the Reality of Time Data Analysis at Summit Academy The Nature of Time Experiment USASEF Gallery ADVANCED CONCEPT ADVENTURES NLD at AAAS The "Fringe" Of Science IS ANY OF THIS REALLY "REAL"? A BRIEF HISTORY OF FRINGE SCIENCE ON THE REAL FRINGE Marshall Barnes, R&D Eng = The Best In STEM The Oppenheimer Strain WHAT'S TO COME IN THE REAL FRINGE Where It All Began Marshall Barnes at the USASEF Business STEM Support Critical Thinking At Bexley Press Press Room 2 Press Room 3 D.C. TIme Party Mars Society Conference Education Visionary Grandview Heights and the Oppenheimer Strain Photo THE UNIVERSE AS "IT'S OWN MOTHER" Mars Society Conference In Grapevine, TX Time Runs Backwards Marcon 2012 OSU Wexner Center Math and Science Club Beats Hawking! Time Machine Prototype At Grandview Heights High School STEPHEN HAWKING'S FEEDBACK MISTAKE 14th Annual Mars Conference Road Trip SPonsored by GreyHound

THE OPPENHEIMER STRAIN

The Oppenheimer Strain is the condition where experts fail to see things in their field of expertise that are apparent to school age children. The term was invented by Marshall Barnes based on a quote from J. Robert Oppenheimer about children being able to solve his top problems in physics due to their having modes of sensory perception that he lost long ago (see OppenheimerStrain ). It has been tested so far at Bexley High School and Columbus Africentric Early College and has worked every time to the surprise of the teachers there. Students were given thought models with errors in them that had not been detected yet by the scientific community at large and on the projected estimate is that 3 students out of 20 will get the right answer. At Africentric, however it was 4 out of 12. At Grandview Heights it was 5 out of 20. The difficulty of the questions at Grandview was the greatest so far and both dealt with the nature of space and time on an advanced level.

The Arrow of Time

One of the questions that the Grandview students had to deal with was based on the idea that time would contract and run backwards if the universe were to contract. This was an idea that Stephen Hawking had but later abandoned when mathematician Raymond LaFlamme showed him that that would not be possible. However, Hawking didn't believe LaFlamme until after LaFlamme proved it by running his equations through a computer.

Below is LaFlamme with Stephen Hawking at the Institute for Quantum Computing.

  

 

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The Universe As Its Own "Mother"

The other question that the students dealt with was the idea of the universe creating itself via a branch of it curling backwards in time and hooking up to where the universe began. This is a model promoted by Princeton physics professor J. Richard Gott and is featured on the cover of his book, Time Travel in Einstein's Universe. 

Time Travel in Einstein's Universe: The Physical Possibilities of Travel Through Time

Learn more about J. R. Gott's theory of a universe that is it's "own mother" and the rest of the story of Marshall's incredible Oppenheimer Strain experiment at Grandview High School by clicking here!