Data Analysis At Summit Academy
Does Time Slow Down During A Frightening Experiment?
Just like the physics students of Bexley High School teacher, physics students at the Summit Academy in Toledo, Ohio got a chance to review and analyze the widely publicized experiment by Baylor College of Medicine's David Eagleman, testing duration dilation, for National Lab Day. What was surprising was not only did they successfully analyze and comprehend the ramification of the experiement but also that they all had various degrees of a condition called Asperger's syndrome, a kind of autism. Marshall hadn't been told this prior to his arrival but noticed that some of the students seemed detached. Still, the majority of the class was very attentive and in fact had little trouble in engaging the concepts that Marshall presented. They all used their stop watches and timed the falls exactly as the Bexley students had and came to the same conclusions - that the Eagleman experiment was terminally flawed and its results were inconsequential.
The excellence of the curriculum and teaching staff at the Summit Academy is the reason why, despite their condition, the students there are still able to achieve at a level that is comparable to students without Ausperger's. The fact that they would still be able to notice that something was wrong with Eagleman's experiment while other scientists haven't noticed on their own is yet another example of the Oppenheimer Strain, named for the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer who said that "there are children playing in the street who could solve my top problems in physics because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago".
The students at the Summit Academy prove that this is true in yet another case.
Duration Dilation?
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