APS Program Reflection
I am proud to be to selected for consideration for the APS program at Argonne in association with our high school. The APS at the Argonne National Laboratory is one of the most diverse and industrious scientific instruments available for civilian use, ranging from simple industrial analysis of synthetic to organic compounds, to a general ecological and biological application use, mapping out protein structures and hormone receptors. Such a diverse scientific instrument in my opinion is utterly useless unless a diverse group of people, with different backgrounds and perspective are allowed input into what is tested and how it is tested. Once again, I am honored for my recognition of scientific ability which allowed me to be selected for consideration in the first place, and I would like to give an example of how my perspective can be used to further research at this program. For
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one, I love card magic: sleights, illusions, cheats… etc. This fascination of magic has lead to some unorthodox thinking methods. For example: when a magician pulls your selected card out from inside an orange, one may ask “how did he get the card in the orange?” In my opinion this question is irrelevant and unnecessary because as a spectator at the end of the trick, you already know the card was in the orange when he pulls it out. A more important question would be to ask “how did he make it look like he took your card out of the orange?” This leads to another question: “how did he know it was my card?” and another, “was my card there the whole time?”, “did I have a free choice?”, and finally leading to the solution.
1: knowing the card was already in the orange one does not need to figure out how it got in there. 2: the illusion of the card appearing to be in the orange only after the trick was completed, is the key to its success. 3: if in reality my card was there the whole time, the card I chose must have been forced on me by the magicien. This simple breakdown of a magic trick could mean the difference from worrying or over think about a problem that in reality is quite simple to understand if looked at from a different angle or perspective. Karl Germain, a famous american magician once said “Magic is the only honest profession. A magician promises to deceive you and he does.” In a sense we are all spectators in a magic show of the natural world, continually trying to decypher the illusion that is our
existence.
one, I love card magic: sleights, illusions, cheats… etc. This fascination of magic has lead to some unorthodox thinking methods. For example: when a magician pulls your selected card out from inside an orange, one may ask “how did he get the card in the orange?” In my opinion this question is irrelevant and unnecessary because as a spectator at the end of the trick, you already know the card was in the orange when he pulls it out. A more important question would be to ask “how did he make it look like he took your card out of the orange?” This leads to another question: “how did he know it was my card?” and another, “was my card there the whole time?”, “did I have a free choice?”, and finally leading to the solution.
1: knowing the card was already in the orange one does not need to figure out how it got in there. 2: the illusion of the card appearing to be in the orange only after the trick was completed, is the key to its success. 3: if in reality my card was there the whole time, the card I chose must have been forced on me by the magicien. This simple breakdown of a magic trick could mean the difference from worrying or over think about a problem that in reality is quite simple to understand if looked at from a different angle or perspective. Karl Germain, a famous american magician once said “Magic is the only honest profession. A magician promises to deceive you and he does.” In a sense we are all spectators in a magic show of the natural world, continually trying to decypher the illusion that is our
existence.