WHERE IT ALL BEGAN...

ABOUT the VIDEO About the PHYSICS BEHIND THE SCENES - BEXLEY Physics In Trouble HOW DID THEY DO IT? The Worm in the Wormhole Time Machine Bexley Photo Gallery 2008 Innovation Award Nominees Local Business Support The_Problem Marshall Barnes Brings The Reality Of Fringe to Life National Lab Day IS A REAL MASSIVE DYNAMIC POSSIBLE? Tech Companies Support National Lab Day #1 NLDScientist Bettering Our Schools? NLDHubble NLD Grandview Heights NLD Light Refraction Grandview Heights High School and the Reality of Time Data Analysis at Summit Academy The Nature of Time Experiment USASEF Gallery ADVANCED CONCEPT ADVENTURES NLD at AAAS The "Fringe" Of Science IS ANY OF THIS REALLY "REAL"? A BRIEF HISTORY OF FRINGE SCIENCE ON THE REAL FRINGE Marshall Barnes, R&D Eng = The Best In STEM The Oppenheimer Strain WHAT'S TO COME IN THE REAL FRINGE Where It All Began Marshall Barnes at the USASEF Business STEM Support Critical Thinking At Bexley Press Press Room 2 Press Room 3 D.C. TIme Party Mars Society Conference Education Visionary Grandview Heights and the Oppenheimer Strain Photo THE UNIVERSE AS "IT'S OWN MOTHER" Mars Society Conference In Grapevine, TX Time Runs Backwards Marcon 2012 OSU Wexner Center Math and Science Club Beats Hawking! Time Machine Prototype At Grandview Heights High School STEPHEN HAWKING'S FEEDBACK MISTAKE 14th Annual Mars Conference Road Trip SPonsored by GreyHound

REMEMBERING THE FIRST ADVANCED CONCEPT LECTURE FOR HIGH SCHOOLERS - THE EVENT THAT STARTED IT ALL!

 

More than 10 years before the creation of National Lab Day, at a time when there was just beginning to be a dialog about increasing the amount of attention in schools toward science and math, Marshall Barnes, then a highly experienced professional in the technology field of video production, and just beginning to get into quantum physics and scientific research, had the idea of presenting some of the advanced concept ideas that he was learning from his mentor Fred Alan Wolf, PhD to any high school physics student who wanted to see Wolf lecture. Thus, Taking The Quantum Leap with Fred Alan Wolf was born and the first in what would later become a long series of successful advanced concept STEM projects for Central Ohio youth and beyond, that Marshall would be responsible for. Using his marketing expertise and experience as a concert and event producer, Marshall was able to get sponsors at different levels and then contacted every physics teacher in Franklin county to tell them of the event. It was free to any physics student in Franklin County regardless of whether they were from a public, private, or parochial school. Some 300 students attended, along with about another 100 adults, on the evening of March 29th, 1993 at Battelle Memorial Institute auditorium, to hear Wolf explain the strange world of quantum mechanics and relate it to every day life. 

 

 

 

                      Faded copy of the original program cover of

              Taking the Quantum Leap With Fred Alan Wolf

 

Fred Alan Wolf was already an award winning author for his book, Taking the Quantum Leap   and had come to Marshall's attention due to Wolf's book, Parallel Universes:The Search for Other Worlds. At the time, the subject of quantum physics was just coming into popularity in the mainstream. Marshall knew of the importance of the topic and that high schoolers didn't get any real exposure to quantum mechanics. Marshall knew, particularly with the references from quantum mechanics in many popular sci-fi movies and TV shows, that this would be a subject that would stimulate the interest and imagination of the high schoolers and as a result, it would be a perfect educational event for them to see. 

 

 

 Below is a video clip of Fred Alan wolf's character, Dr. Quantum, explaining the famous double slit experiment, one of the things that Fred covered during his presentation at Battelle. 

 
 
 
Below is a video about the early history of quantum mechanics, which is the science of the atomic and subatomic world, while Newtonian physics deals with objects in the world above the atomic and Relativity goes beyond Newtonian to describe reality in terms of space, time, matter and energy. 
 
 
 
Fred Alan Wolf has continued writing books and has appeared in many documentaries and TV programs talking about quantum physics and the philosophy of everyday life. He is also known as "Dr. Quantum" in a series of DVD and CD products on the same subjects and themes. Marshall Barnes still stays in touch with him and he has shared in a number of Marshall's research projects as a consultant. The fact that Marshall not only realized Wolf's potential as a communicator of science to young people that long ago, but has followed up with his own programs, is proof of his abilities as a visionary who can help change the world.