\u201c\u2019Mysteries\u2019 of Modern Physics and the Fundamental Constants c, h, and G,\u201d<\/a> reflects on the discoveries they\u2019ve made since the publication of their book, \u201cBeyond the Dynamical Universe,\u201d in 2018. Stuckey says the mystery of modern physics they resolved in this essay resides in Einstein\u2019s theory of gravity called \u201cgeneral relativity,\u201d which the Etown Professor of Physics says, \u201cpredicts that observers in different locations in space can measure different values for the mass of one and the same object.\u201d<\/p>\nStuckey believes the continued collaboration between him and his fellow professors, who all have their own academic expertise, is necessary to both understand and resolve the mysteries of modern physics.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe success of our collaboration is evidence for the value of pedagogically motivated interdisciplinary research, germane to Etown College,\u201d said Stuckey.<\/p>\n
All three professors were pleased to learn that their essay received Honorable Mention in the competition along with papers from well-known physicists working at high-profile R1 institutions.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause teaching and research go hand-in-hand at Etown, an interdisciplinary collaboration of its faculty was motivated to show that Einstein was wrong in believing quantum mechanics is \u2018incomplete,\u2019\u201d said Stuckey. \u201cIndeed, what our essay shows is that quantum mechanics is, ironically, as complete as Einstein\u2019s own theories of modern physics. Now modern physics can be introduced comprehensively and coherently to Etown students in courses such as How Things Work, Foundations of Modern Physics, College Physics I, II, and III, General Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Elizabethtown College Professor of Physics Mark Stuckey, Professor of Mathematical and Computer Sciences Tim McDevitt, and Professor of Philosophy Michael Silberstein recently received Honorable Mention for their collaborative essay in the Gravity Research Foundation 2021 Awards for Essays on Gravitation. The three professors have been collaborating since 2005 to bring their backgrounds in philosophy, mathematics, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133,"featured_media":10099,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1338,178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics-and-research","category-achievements","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10100,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10098\/revisions\/10100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}