Isaac Newton Can’t Do It! Science in Public Schools

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” - Albert Einstein



In Newton’s Universe matter can only exist in one place at a time. Yet we prove on a daily and ongoing basis that this is not true; that matter 'can' be duplicated and applied to real situations with real results. Every time we write and send an email we are aligning electrons into meaningful series and then we use these arranged electrons to DO things. These technologies are tools that enable us to make tools to do other things. In Newton’s Universe it was impossible.

Newton was wrong and Newton can’t do it. Einstein could, did, and he has enabled all of us to do it in keeping with his peculiar and effective view of reality; of the nature of the physical world and the potential that is embodied in the smallest particles of matter and their subcomponents, which are ‘non-matter’. These tools have no physical being and cannot be located in a place. They are a ‘quantum leap’ ahead of their physical predecessors. The energy contained in these small particles is really difficult, if not impossible to predict and calculate at this point in our exploration and development of this new Science…this new set of sciences.

Only Quantum Theory [math, physics, et cetera] can enable and give us a theoretical base that allows for the effective use of neutrons and electrons [quarks, coloured gluons, quantum chromodynamics] in communication and in social, cultural, physical, industrial, scientific and political change. This is a sub-atomic particle era [The Atomic Age] and we know how to use our ‘subs’ with greater and greater facility. This cannot be accommodated by Isaac Newton’s inflexible universe and requires a conception of The Quantum.

How could we have known and who would have guessed that neutrons are existent phenomena that can and must co-exist in more than one place at the same time and that we can align, arrange and manipulate these electrons in meaningful ways that change all aspects of life? Who would have suspected, given what was previously believed and taught? Newton did not allow it.

We must teach our children Quantum Theory and we must do it quickly. In order for this to be possible, teachers and others must become acquainted with the Science of their Age. Presently they seem to know nothing about it and still struggle in a ‘mechanical universe’ instead of in a Quantum Universe. Quantum allows and permits and enables miracles by the standards of Newtonian Physics. These Quantum Phenomena make the real condition and Being of the essential material of the universe the subject of a Science, rather than a mystery, a technology rather than a miracle. Not knowing this is an impediment to our National stability, progress and growth. And this ‘problem’ is rooted in our public schools and the curricula we employ in them. These are outdated, obsolete and a waste of resources, money, time and lives.

Teachers require immediate and appropriate training in this Science and other necessary Educational adjustments. This should have been done fifty years ago. Our survival and success depend upon this. We need good teachers trained in current science and with good technologies available to assist them in sharing these important components of The Universal Culture with all students in all schools. The rules have changed completely in the physical world and everyone must know…quickly.

The rules of education must also change in order to accommodate the ‘changed’ reality. One way to begin to address this set of problems is to engage the resources of research centres like The Perimeter Institute of Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario in a public education “upgrade”. We need new approaches and understandings…new Software…quickly. And we need to learn how to implement and apply the new technologies that have already been enabled by this new science, not only cell phones, iPods, BlackBerries, but new technologies of all types. We will learn these things from our children so they should be encouraged to implement and use these cutting edge technologies in our schools. The future is in their hands in Gameboys and Quantum tools. These tools will enable a rapid response to Global problems which current technologies will not allow.


“Newton is dead. Long live Einstein.”

RJW