Recent content by Cluelessluke

Oh, I forgot to answer your first question - yes the students are in 9th grade.

Marcus - these are all great questions. A. I will be teaching the course. B. I will also be doing the research (I just received my PhD in Theoretical Cosmology so the "research" part will be how to explain it in a less mathematical, and engaging manner - also with fun "labs"), gathering the...

Hello all! I've been instructed to construct a week long Cosmology class for High School Freshman. The class will run from about 8am-3pm everyday (with breaks and lunch or course). My first step in constructing this class is just to ask you guys what you would want to learn about...

Great! Thanks so much for your help!

Thanks for the reply! To be more specific, I'm referring to equation (14) in http://arxiv.org/pdf/1206.5311v2.pdf. They have an e^{-2Im(S)} contribution in their cross section (where I believe S in the action not the S-matrix) and I'm having a hard time seeing where it comes from.

Can someone point towards how to derive that the cross section is proportional to the imaginary part of the Action? Also, I thought the Action was a real number? Thanks!

Hello all! I'm getting my PhD in theoretical cosmology in August and I'm trying to figure out the intersection between what I WANT to do and what I CAN do. Does anyone know much about Physics Education Research? I find education fascinating and I'm seriously considering applying to some great...

Hello all! So I need advice...any advice...on where to go in my life. You might say I'm going though an existential crisis. I'm graduating with a PhD in theoretical cosmology in August and I rather die than get a postdoc (and therefore any type of professorship/physics research position). So...

A perpetual motion DEVICE is a device, but there is also the concept of just perpetual motion (without a "device"). This is just motion going on indefinitely without the need to introduce new energy (you could also phrase it in the sense that entropy isn't increasing). However after posting...

So I have a somewhat naive question. Let's pretend that only an electron existed in a flat, static spacetime. That's all. We can boost to the rest frame of this electron to just say it's sitting there...doing nothing...in flat spacetime. Is there something not perpetual about this?

After doing some research, I'm learning about PER. It's hard for me to find postdoc options for such groups. Do these not exist?

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Hello all! I'm a fourth year grade student in physics (specifically theoretical cosmology). Over the years I've become more and more interested in education. I even applied and was accepted as a STEM instructor for a local high school...which probably takes up more of my time than my...

Thanks everyone for your input! I now have a new, related question. I can understand why some schools would consider someone with a PhD to be overqualified. In a hypothetical situation, if my resume (assuming I somehow got the appropriate teaching certificate) landed on the desk of every...

I've considered community college and it's not out of the race but I'd like to do more investigation into high school before I make any final commitment. I'd still like my previous question to be answered :)