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|age= Secondary, Year 10. | |age= Secondary, Year 10. | ||
|content=A presentation about the frontiers of human understanding and the truly strange world proposed by relativity and quantum mechanics. Incidentally, 88 mph is the speed at which the 'Delorean' car is able to travel through time in '[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_the_Future Back to the Future]'. This is lesson | |content=A presentation about the frontiers of human understanding and the truly strange world proposed by relativity and quantum mechanics. Incidentally, 88 mph is the speed at which the 'Delorean' car is able to travel through time in '[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_the_Future Back to the Future]'. This is lesson five of 6 in the [[Astronomy_Masterclass|'Astronomy masterclass' series]]. | ||
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|Learning Objectives= | |Learning Objectives= | ||
* | * appreciate the limits put on time travel by Einstein's general relativity | ||
* | * appreciate that time is relative and that each of us will measure it slightly differently. | ||
* | * appreciate that relativity and quantum mechanics do not fully fit together and this merely means that our models are not perfect. | ||
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[[Category:Secondary]] [[Category:Science]] | [[Category:Secondary]] [[Category:Science]] | ||
== Teacher's Notes == | == Teacher's Notes == | ||
