{"id":49747,"date":"2011-10-18T15:21:47","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T19:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=49747"},"modified":"2018-06-04T09:21:19","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T13:21:19","slug":"nova-blogger-sarah-charley-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2011\/10\/18\/nova-blogger-sarah-charley-11\/","title":{"rendered":"NOVA intern Sarah Charley ’11 starts with a joke"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"charley-11\"<\/a> In her debut blog post as a intern for NOVA,<\/em><\/a> Sarah Charley ’11 explains the Heisenberg uncertainty principle using an old joke and a few apt similes that explain how an electron can sometimes be like a “sheet crumpled into a ball” and other times like a “quilt spread across a bed.”<\/p>\n

Here’s the joke. Professor Werner Heisenberg is speeding down the highway when a cop pulls him over. The cop walks up to his car and asks, “Excuse me sir, do you know how fast you were going?” And Heisenberg responds, “No, but I know exactly where I am!” (Read Charley’s post <\/a>to see the humor.)<\/p>\n

Entering the field of science journalism has been Charley’s career goal for some time. For her chemistry senior thesis last year, Charley produced a full-length magazine about the faculty and student research happenings in the chemistry department. And last winter, she gamely used a snow sculpture to explain<\/a> the concepts of potential barriers and quantum tunneling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sarah Charley ’11 explains the Heisenberg uncertainty principle and how an electron can sometimes be like a \u201csheet crumpled into a ball\u201d and other times like a \u201cquilt spread across a bed\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":50216,"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":[4,7,133,217,11009],"tags":[11051,10763],"class_list":["post-49747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-life","category-alumni","category-creativity","category-science-technology","category-the-college","tag-bates-in-the-news","tag-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49747","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\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49747"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86069,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49747\/revisions\/86069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}