Navigating Second Glances
Navigating Second Glances
Science is seldom what it seems at first glance.
 Navigating Second Glances

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The boats are links to discovery

Floating down a river on a lazy afternoon...  As infants, we had learned to perceive.  As children, we had learned how to move effectively and go where we want.  As adults, we learned how to navigate—even, perhaps, down an unfamiliar river...

"Drifting here, you learned to perceive, not to preconceive, what makes a land beautiful..."
David Brower
The Place No One Knewin The Place No One Knew
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This column is an entry into
Knowledge for Use.
A treasure hunt.
Watch for hidden surprises and occult meanings.  The treasure is a web of hidden passageways into man's newly discovered realms in "rationality-space."  It can extend your knowledge into vast realms of usefulness that have been:
UNSEEN
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Perception is a strange thing.  What we see seems like just what's there.  Nothing more.  Nothing less. 1SEE scienceNot so!
(That picture of the boats landing is a colorblind perception.  Why?)
 The Edge of Human ComprehensionWhat is colorblindness?
Seeing and not seeing the cards.Two very different perceptions
Mother Nature worked millions of years on our perceptions.  We are born blind and gradually become able to "see" just a little of our world. 2There's more than meets the eye.Mysteries
at the edge of human comprehension
Dimensionality
Depth		 a child's viewChildren mature into adults.
egocentrism to scienceChildren mature into adults.
improperly inverted implicationsScience is not just an alternative.
response curves for the three...The color curves of the cones.
Science is seeing deeper than anyone thought possible...just a few centuries ago.

Collect new and better mind tools to see science.

 3Peer past the perimetersScience is
seeing...in depth
Dimensionality is like the dots on your computer screen.  This insight digs deeper into dimensionality than does the spatial thing we know so well.		 Where's the white in white light?See color as three kinds of dots.
the hidden message.See; think
Where's the tool box?New and better mind tools
When very young, we learned how to move effectively and go where we want.  Mankind travelled a long way in time before discovering the rules of the road in space. 4Look at the dawn of modern science.The Rules
of the road
As seen through our perceptions of the abstract:
How and why does the boat move?

Newton's First Law of Motion

 very common misconceptionsSee a lot of first glances.
Seeing, not learning, is their goal.See extrapolation to limits.
Follow 'recent research' link to U of WashingtonResearch in physics education
buzzsaw and chessboardMartin Gardner's puzzles
Effective  rules of the road were first formulated by Isaac Newton.  They are mathematical rules.  They are very simple. 5Collisions cause cracks.Simple but
subtle
Boats sometimes hit rocks.
Boats might break.

Newton's Second Law of Motion
Newton's laws in law
this link leads to the 'secret' sectionF = ma
. 5aCollisions cause bounces.
Newton's Second Law of Motion
in the handball court
 Up or down??Who understandsacceleration?
We are immersed in folklore and myths, fairy tales that entertain and comfort.  Some help us see.  Some don't. 6one implication of mutual reciprocityThe simplest
and subtlest of all

Newton's Third Law of Motion

 this link leads to the 'secret' sectionA first glance at the third law.
Life is...???Mutual reciprocity in the real world

Haiku
from APS, via Larry Learner, thru Jer

A body maintains
Its rest, or straight-line motion
Unless net force acts. 
F equals p-dot.
That is all you need to know.
Use it with wisdom.
To ev'ry action
There's an equal reaction
Counter-directed.