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|resourcenumber=SC0023  
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|age= Secondary, Year 10.
|age= Secondary, Year 10.
|content=Lesson 5 of a series of 6 entitled “Astronomy masterclass” (SC0018).
|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 '''Back to the Future''. This is lesson 5 of 6 in the “Astronomy masterclass” series (SC0018).


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|Learning Objectives=By the end of the session students should be able to:
|Learning Objectives=Students should be able to:
* Appreciate the limits put in time travel by Einstein's general relativity,
* Appreciate the limits put in time travel by Einstein's general relativity,
* Appreciate that time is relative and that each of us will measure it slightly differently.
* Appreciate that time is relative and that each of us will measure it slightly differently.
* Appreciate that relativity and QM do not fully fit together.
* Appreciate that relativity and Quantum mechanics do not fully fit together and this merely means that our models are not perfect.
* Understand why this is OK, as it merely means our models are not currently perfect.
 


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|format=A Narrated Screencast of Session 5 from the Astronomy Masterclass. This fifth session looks at the frontiers of human understanding and the truly strange world proposed by Relativity and Quantum Mechanics.<br />1. Session 5 narrated video 34mins http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXLUTm-rXnA&feature=relmfu, <br />2. Session 5 prezi is slides 141-199 of the 241mb file: https://www.box.com/shared/aqnk3lvr09. http://prezi.com/2hk390sfkqjh/the-astronomy-masterclass/<br />3. Astronomy masterclass.pdf use pages 141-199 for Session 5. <br />The overview Masterclass Prezi (all 6 sessions) can be viewed online http://prezi.com/2hk390sfkqjh.<br />The full set of resources for the 6 sessions can be viewed online at: http://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/The-Astronomy-Masterclass-6070303/ (This also includes a link to the associated 7 videos on YouTube).  
|format=A Narrated Screencast of Session 5 from the Astronomy Masterclass. This fifth session looks at the frontiers of human understanding and the truly strange world proposed by Relativity and Quantum Mechanics.<br />1. Session 5 narrated video 34mins http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXLUTm-rXnA&feature=relmfu, <br />2. Session 5 prezi is slides 141-199 of the 241mb file: https://www.box.com/shared/aqnk3lvr09. http://prezi.com/2hk390sfkqjh/the-astronomy-masterclass/<br />3. Astronomy masterclass.pdf use pages 141-199 for Session 5. <br />The overview Masterclass Prezi (all 6 sessions) can be viewed online http://prezi.com/2hk390sfkqjh.<br />The full set of resources for the 6 sessions can be viewed online at: http://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/The-Astronomy-Masterclass-6070303/ (This also includes a link to the associated 7 videos on YouTube).  
|resources=For session 5 of the Astronomy Masterclass, see p141 to 199 of the full PDF at https://www.box.com/shared/aqnk3lvr09   
 
 
|resources=For session 5 of the Astronomy Masterclass, see p141 to 199 of the full PDF at https://www.box.com/shared/aqnk3lvr09  STUFF HERE
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