{"id":39742,"date":"2011-01-31T11:53:18","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T16:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=39742"},"modified":"2016-02-09T14:32:38","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T19:32:38","slug":"quantum-physics-snow-sculpture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2011\/01\/31\/quantum-physics-snow-sculpture\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Can a snow sculpture explain quantum physics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Few understand the concepts of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rectangular_potential_barrier\">potential barriers<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quantum_tunnelling\">quantum tunneling<\/a>, so it follows that\u00a0trying to illustrate these scientific ideas with a snow sculpture would be futile &#8212; but not for chemistry major Sarah Charley &#8217;11 of Portola Valley, Calif., who gamely explains the meaning of a sculpture<\/a> that she and fellow majors created on Jan. 28.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Physics explained through snow sculpture\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/31SCyaD9z1Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Around the Quad on Friday afternoon, science students created snow sculptures to illustrate scientific concepts, from evolution to an Erlenmeyer flask experiment gone awry. It was all a prelude to the evening&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/views\/2011\/01\/27\/arts-crawl\/\">Arts Crawl. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around the Quad on Friday afternoon, science students created snow sculptures to illustrate scientific concepts, from evolution to an Erlenmeyer flask experiment gone awry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[133,11009],"tags":[10763,10576,10764,10834],"class_list":["post-39742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creativity","category-the-college","tag-chemistry","tag-class-of-2011","tag-physics","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76840,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39742\/revisions\/76840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}