Re: Evaluating Candidates Using Tests, Logic Questions, and Similar

[Ned Bedinger <doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com>]

Note also that in 1942, I don't think anyone really understood the 
energetics of photosynthesis.  All of the stuff we know today (about a 
photon of light energizing an electron in chlorophyll so that it jumps 
to the next electron shell and begins a reaction through a series of 
chemical transformations to eventually be stored as starch) would have 
resulted in witch burning way-y-y-y back then. 


I think that with the proper perspective, we can still understand that 
(if not how) an engineer of 1942 would have been astonished to know that 
nature had such a practical demonstration of something that the science 
of that day found to be a paradox of duality (light coes in discrete 
packets of energy and behaves like a wave AND a particle).  Today, my 
7-year old can leap this problem without breaking stride.  I told her 
about it, and she declared with utmost certainty, "Sure, no problem, 
light is a particle surfing on a wave." 

As tech writers, we're all that good, aren't we?


--Ned




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