Revisiting three laws of motions: Crossing physics with metaphysics

An a surprise mock lesson on Newton's three laws of motion was held to relate the behaviour of physical world under an externally applied force to develop a scientific mind and evolving transcendental mind to understand the physical laws and their meta-physical implications. The mock lesson participants (Sample: Ex-Raists / Alumni of Sports School, Rai, admitted in 1972 as elderly learners; N=25; Females= 2; Mean age: 60+; Teacher= Physics male ex-teacher of 76+ age with Ph.D. in Pedagogy; lesson time= 20 minutes)

The classroom environment was informal and joyful that got created with the class standing up and greeting the teacher (with "Gooood Morniiing Sir'' in a dragged sing-song way). The lesson was tried with gender-inclusive and equitable social climate in which female participants were allowed to giggle and raise questions. However, the gender imbalance in classroom was noticed and articulated by the male participants.

The teacher explained the implications of the laws in day-to-day living with ethics, good deeds and self-development. He summarised the lesson with an equation and a Venn diagram as follows

EQUATIONS

LOVE / MENTAL FORCE + LEARNING / ANALYSIS AND CODIFICATION = LIFE

MATHEMATICAL-LOGICAL INTELLIGENCE + SPIRITUAL INTELLIGENCE= LEARNING THAT LIBERATES

• DYNAMIC LIFE IS NOTHING BUT LIFE-LONG LEARNING

IMPLICATE TEACHING MODEL

The take-away for the mock lesson is as follows.

The mock lesson threw up the possibility of improving and formalize a proper research lesson that combines ‘mathematical-logical intelligence’ and ‘spiritual intelligence’ (physics + meta physics) as model of teaching physics.

A secondary analysis of the mock lesson experience reaffirmed that humans are basically objective cum subjective learners. The objective learning is of the physical-sensual world that can be observed and measured. As we know that physics is the study of the observable material or physic world; thus, limited and restricted to what we have in cosmos. Since humans are a combination of mind/consciousness and matter, hence they are meta-physical. Thus, humans need to combine metaphysics as study of existential truth consisting of levels of consciousness which can be attained. Hence, learners must be made conscious of their 'state of being' as pure awareness (self-knowledge) while they learning about the physical world as school-based constructed experiences. Those who are studying the advances in quantum physics and neuro-scientific studies draw inspiration of their spiritual or existential intelligence which believes in non-duality, monism or holism.