--- In quizbowl_at_y..., "sdwebb91984" <sdwebb91984_at_y...> wrote:
>From a phyiscs standpoint, we still
>ask questions about Newtonian physics even though Relativity pretty
>much has replaced it in accuracy. The point is, people still know
>Newtonian physics, it's more accessible to non-physics majors than
>questions about General Relativity. Euclidean geometry is
>effectively dead, but it's still asked in high school ALL THE TIME.
As a physics major, I object to the idea that Newtonian physics (or
classical physics in general) is "dead." Are you saying that
classical physics is no longer worth learning? Certainly we have
gone far beyond the confines of classical physics, but all classical
phenomena are still very much in effect; it's not as though they've
gone away just because we've discovered quantum mechanics. The same
goes for Euclidean geometry; it's not as if just because we've
invented a different geometry Euclidean geometry has become useless
all of a sudden. I don't know much about Freud or what he did and
didn't do, but I do know that in under appropriate conditions, both
classical physics and Euclidean geometry still apply (last time I
checked) and thus certainly merit having questions written on them.
Jerry