Open course ware

PROFESSOR: Superposition is very unusual and very interesting. Now we've said about superposition that in classical physics, when we talk about superposition we have electric fields, and you add the electric fields, and the total electric field is the sum of electric fields, and it's an electric field. And there's nothing strange about it. The nature of superposition in quantum mechanics is very strange. So nature of superposition-- I will illustrate it in a couple of different ways. One way is with a device that we will get accustomed to. It it's called the Mach-Zehnder interferometer, which is a device with a beam splitter in here. You send in a beam of light-- input- beam splitter and then the light-- indeed half of it gets reflected, half of it gets transmitted. Then you put the mirror here-- mirror 1, you put the mirror 2 here, and this gets recombined into another beam splitter. And then if there would be just a light going in, here there would be tw...

we are very grateful to V and the V studio for their inspiring and generous Presence at Cs and MIT and we are looking forward to the presentation this season V aoni is one of the most important figures in our architecture today from his days as the poet in the early 60s to his sem performance work in the 70s to the large scale architectural projects in recent years our country has pushed from one discipline to the next approaching each as a kind of challenging new vocation this is perhaps uh a unique occasion in which V will speak present uh uh the work together with the members of from the studio in his presentation uh I assume VTO they tell us among other things this story of his poetic philosophical Journey from art in art gallery through art in public space to art as architecture fashion and to other fields of art of design the three members of his seren Bast G ricardi and Lunes will hopefully speak talk about the project they have been involved with uh the Creative E...