Any Ideas?

[EverCurious]

Hello,

 

I'm currently a High-school sophomore and I've come here because I've been so interested with the materials presented in these forums for so long, its just recently I've actually decided to become a member, however thats a different story. As matter of fact goes, I've got 1 month to provide evidence for something of "exceptional educational magnitude" in order to demonstrate my intellect and capacity to be deserving titlehood as an International Baccalaureate student. For those people that are not aware there are only 400 schools worldwide that offer this program and an extremely, EXTREMELY slim percentage graduate with the IB diploma. It is of extreme prestige and one of my greater dreams to pursue. As I have a specific amount of time for this project I am deciding to demonstrate my interest in the highly evolving field of theoretical physics, I have posted here to ask for help and guidance to what I should try and present, I have checked the rules, and I am allowed to recieve help from my intellectual superiors. So I rephrase the question, What should I focus on doing? What is within my ability and yet still be considered something of "exceptional educational magnitude"?

 

Sincere Thanks for Considering me,

--EverCurious

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My daughter got her International Baccalaureate three years ago. Begging for help from strangers on the web, hardly provides evidence for something of "exceptional educational magnitude." You might consider that even after acceptance into the program about ten percent were culled out as unsuitable in the first term.

 

If you can't cut it on your own getting in, how do you expect to survive?

[EverCurious]

There is a very fine line between begging and asking for help to develop a thesis. I find it highly insulting to be equated as a begger, but I realize that in essence that is what I am doing. For your information I am not a complete waste of oxygen, I have been published two times in a CLASS B medical journal Once for my research as an intern in eN-Terminus for the effects of microbial growth under Lactoferrin, and the second time for research on ROS limiting anti-oxidants and their applications. Technically I would be entitled to submit those same papers in for equal amount of credit, however, I wish to broaden my spectrum so I can later choose a focus. Thus, I decided to begin a new paper touching upon the subject of theoretical physics. I was just looking for pointers, maybe towards some books, as my knowledge is outdated because of the rapidly evolving nature of this subject. (I heard that Hawking denounced his old theories from the original A Brief History of Time, but I would have no idea since the last time I read any of his works was in 5th grade with the aid of my father.)

 

Sorry for giving you the impression that I was beginning for answers, or technically cheating.

[Airmid]

Hi EverCurious,

 

Wow, only one month to provide something of "exceptional educational magnitude". What do they actually require you to do? Write a review? Make a presentation of current knowledge in a certain field? Or actually do some research yourself?

I'd be quite willing to tro to help you, but I'm a biologist, not a physicist. Therefore I'm not quite sure what would qualify as "theoretical physics" and what not. However, I read here that you already did some work in biological systems and lately I came across a lot of physical topics in my own search for information, so that's why I'm replying.

For instance, would "H-tunneling in enzymes" qualify as theoretical physics? If this is not the kind of topic you're looking for, ignore this post. Otherwise I might come up with a few more topics of a biophysical nature.

 

Good luck,

Airmid.

[sunspot]

I would like to propose a fun conceptual model, that you can have, that can readily explain all the observational universe.

I came up with this last year. It is model that can explain the observation data of the universe.

 

Picture is we created a house of mirrors. We position the mirrors at various long distances so that the light reflected between all the mirrors takes various amounts of time to return to us. The time delay and the reflections of time delay would allow one to see the step by step history of their visit in the house of mirrors reflected back to them, at the same time real time events are being reflected by close mirrors.

 

If we also allow our house of mirrors to expand with a uniform velocty from center, each reflection will be red shifted and the more times the light is reflected back and forth will result in the most additive red shift. This will create an illusion that the events from the beginning of our visit are accelerating away from us at the highest velocity. If we go into our house of mirrors with a group of friends and then scatter, each person would view themselves as the center, while the history of our and everyone else's visits would create a diversity of real time, historical and red shifted data of many orders of magnitude more people than are there.

[EverCurious]

That is a very, very intresting model that I can build upon. Thank you very much and could I have your name so If I do decide to build upon this, I could cite you as a source reffered. I'll let you know if I do decide to work on this, because I've also read Conceptual's MDT cube, and it sounds very intresting. And there is one more on the effects of time and the existence of singularites that I may want to work on. This one would be my work entirely. (chances are i'd be doing the last one)

 

THANK YOU SO MUCH...i love this community

[JustStuit]

um....we love u too?