{"id":472,"date":"2019-04-09T10:24:27","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T17:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/HomeBrewery\/\/WP-tmp\/?p=472"},"modified":"2021-10-13T16:19:08","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T23:19:08","slug":"qfte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/?p=472","title":{"rendered":"QFTE"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\" style=\"text-align: center;\">A Quantum Field Theory of Education<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Since science education is no longer considered enlightened unless informed by SCholarly Research On Teaching And Learning, a modern theory of education is needed in order to take full advantage of the clarifying terminology developed to make relativistic quantum mechanics more transparent. This essay constitutes the hermeneutics of a new quantum field theory of education (QFTE), in which the usual roles of integer spin intermediaries and interacting fermions are interchanged.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>In QTFE, second quantization is applied to the following fields:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li><strong>Morons<\/strong>: a type of <em>bozo<\/em> that likes to condense into a moronic BEC which exhibits <em>stupidfoolidity<\/em>.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li><strong>Lessons<\/strong>: in QFTE all interactions between morons are mediated by the exchange of lessons, a type of fermion. This makes the interactions very weak, since no lessons are ever absorbed &#8212; just back-propagated on exams.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The moronic BEC has this interesting property: once it reaches its stupidfoolish ground state, unless excited by very high energy lessons, the bozos will continue to display stupidfoolidity indefinitely without any sign of dissipation; best measurements suggest a decay time of at least the age of the universe.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>It has been recently discovered that morons come in two types, spin 0 (little morons) and spin 1 (big morons). Big morons interact only through gravity, thus proving the validity of the old joke. (&#8220;&#8230;Why did the little moron stay on the horse? &#8230;&#8221;)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>When a little moron finally absorbs two lessons it can&#8217;t forget, it becomes a big moron, graduates, and never interacts with anything again, except to add to the dead weight of &#8220;<em>society<\/em>&#8220;, a denser moronic BEC of big morons.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>A very small fraction of the morons absorb enough lessons to be promoted into excited states called <em>Professors<\/em>, which decay gradually back to their ground state by lesson emission, contributing thereby to the production of a new generation of morons. Unlike in the case of leptons, however, successive generations of morons are indistinguishable. Perhaps this is because morons, having zero or integer spin, also lack a lepton number.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>A lesson must have half-integer spin, or it would be just another bozo. Most lessons are spin 1\/2 and have almost no substance; these are called light lessons or <em>drek<\/em> particles. Occasionally we find lessons with spin 3\/2, the so-called strange lessons or <em>boreyons<\/em>, and very rarely we see a doubly strange superheavy lesson known as the Omygod boreyon.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Lessons have a rich spectroscopy. Even drek lessons come in many flavors. (Morons claim that the variety is endless, but what do morons know?) It has been speculated that lessons are composed by <em>quacks<\/em>, but this has never been confirmed, because quack Professors always invoke a physician&#8217;s principle known as &#8220;&#8216;Ask on topic!&#8217; freedom&#8221; when asked if they were involved.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The lightest lessons of all are called &#8220;new&#8221; lessons, which are closely related to &#8220;improved&#8221; lessons, neither of which have any substance at all. Only the charged lessons carry any weight, since even morons will absorb some lessons if they have paid good money for them.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Some speculative work has been done on the theory of <em>stupidsymmetry<\/em>, in which each moron has a fermionic partner called a &#8220;<em>morino<\/em>&#8221; and each lesson has a stupidsymmetric &#8220;<em>slesson<\/em>&#8221;. No one has the faintest idea how anyone could tell if this were true.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">_________________________________________________________<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>This theory was formulated over many years, but was first consigned to paper on November 26, 2006. <\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Quantum Field Theory of Education Since science education is no longer considered enlightened unless informed by SCholarly Research On Teaching And Learning, a modern theory of education is needed in order to take full advantage of the clarifying terminology developed to make relativistic quantum mechanics more transparent. 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