 AGORA LABORATORY
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The Agora laboratory and
class consists in a semester class in which the students experiment on a
single simple (basic) phenomenon/ concept (light diffraction/ structure in our case). Besides experimenting they look for and persistently oppose (debate) the main points of view, from history or from their own experience, on that basic phenomenon/ concept. The purpose is to EDUCATE and RESEARCH systematically the reviewing and renewing of a basic understanding. Two examples,one from history and one for light in our time, for such a reviewing/ renewing process are included as a case study. It is not a lecture class but rather a class for experimenting - hypotheses inventorying and analyzing - debating on a single basic concept/ phenomenon.
The old Greek method of Debating consists of looking for, opposing and
analyzing different points of view on a concept/phenomenon, again and
again, for years, by a group of individuals, for the purpose of ...
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() Details
() An introduction (Part I)
() An easy persuasive speech (Part II)
() A detailed description and analysis (Part III)
() A class structure (Part IV)
() An independent laboratory
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 THE ORIGIN OF LIGHT DIFFRACTION
- from an individual and limited application of the Agora method
() What is light? An honest attempt ...
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If you honestly look for oposing views on light diffraction ... If for years you honestly
look at the experimental details toward finding a more detailed mechanism ... Or, if
you can find a class for education in this respect, then
it is likely that you will discover a complementary view, more detailed regarding the physical modeling of light, ...
Here is an example of what you might find.
In the standard view, the quantitative description of diffraction
patterns in electromagnetic optics (w) and quantum
mechanics (qm) relies on the capability of the wave/
wave function to diffract in the vicinity
of the diffracting edges and to interfere in the space
before the screen/ detector.
If the claims I-III below are true, as our extended
analysis of old experiments suggests, then a
complementary view on the light structure is necessary.
The new view must remove the interpretation troubles,
and must provide a mechanism with more detailed observables,
fit for answering many how-can-it-be-like-that questions.
The new view must be complementary to the current view in the
sense that each view can be used where its strengths are greater.
In the context of the success, and of the attraction to the mathematical elegance and mystery, of the
the current views on light, ... see full text
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() A crucial and overdue measurement
() The origin of light
diffraction , a detailed analysis
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