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Congratulations Coach Ogle! The Jaguars are in good hands!🏀🏀

Jaguars — We’re proud to announce Coach Ogle as our new Head Girls Basketball Coach! A familiar face in our program, Coach Ogle brings passion, energy, and a deep commitment to our athletes. The future of Jaguars basketball is bright!

Great family day!

Congratulations Greg!

@TopsportsN @1440KMAJ Athletes, coaches and fans of Topeka sports owe a Big Thank You to Bill Griffin. He was a wonderful friend.

. @TopsportsN founder, longtime broadcaster Bill Griffin passes away at 69 after 10-month cancer fight. @1440KMAJ ... loom.ly/_S2hlOg

I have loved the “Say Hey Kid” from the day I first followed baseball!

What A Champion!

@TopsportsN @HaydenHigh @AndWisne What a Champion!

Shannon (Suddarth) Wisne cherishes opportunity to return to @HaydenHigh for Hall of Fame induction. @AndWisne ... loom.ly/4BCob6k

@PhysInHistory A Great Summary!

The double slit experiment was first performed by Thomas Young in 1801, as a demonstration of the wave nature of light. He used a coherent light source, such as sunlight or a candle, and passed it through a narrow slit in a card. Then he placed another card with two parallel slits close to the first one, and observed the light pattern on a screen behind the second card. He expected to see two bright spots on the screen, corresponding to the two slits, but instead he saw a series of bright and dark fringes, called an interference pattern. This meant that the light waves passing through the two slits interfered with each other, creating regions of constructive and destructive interference. This was evidence that light was not made of particles, as Isaac Newton had proposed, but of waves, as Christiaan Huygens had suggested. However, with the development of quantum mechanics in the early 20th century, it was discovered that light could also behave like particles, called photons. In 1905, Albert Einstein explained the photoelectric effect by assuming that light was composed of discrete packets of energy that could knock electrons out of metals. In 1924, Louis de Broglie proposed that matter could also have wave properties, and derived a relation between the wavelength and momentum of any particle. In 1927, Clinton Davisson and Lester Germer, and independently George Thomson and Alexander Reid, confirmed this hypothesis by showing that electrons could produce interference patterns when scattered by crystals. Later, it was shown that atoms and molecules could also exhibit wave-particle duality. The double slit experiment was then repeated with single photons or electrons, one at a time. Surprisingly, even when only one particle was sent through the slits at a time, an interference pattern still emerged on the screen after many repetitions. This meant that each particle somehow interfered with itself, as if it went through both slits at once. However, if detectors were placed at the slits to observe which slit each particle passed through, the interference pattern disappeared. This showed that the act of measurement affected the outcome of the experiment, and that the particle's behavior depended on whether it was observed or not. This phenomenon is known as quantum superposition and collapse, and it implies that quantum systems exist in a state of uncertainty until they are measured. The experiment has profound implications for our understanding of reality and the nature of observation. It challenges our classical intuition and forces us to accept that reality is not deterministic but probabilistic at the quantum level.

Congratulations Maya and Kate!

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99% will fail to tell the answer

@historyrock_ Roy Orbison Arthur Garfunkel Tony Bennett

Who is missing here? 👇🏻

Our BVW Girls XC TEAM took 3rd at regionals and qualified for State this morning! Way to go ladies!!!

Rockhurst men place 9th out 13 GLVC teams! Many big PR’s!

Rockhurst women place 7th out of 14 GLVC teams!

@nut_history Can you imagine if he was still here?

Happy 84th birthday to John Lennon

Coach Pat Summitt was as good of a coach (and leader) as we’ve ever seen in any sport. Her standards apply to every area of life and are equally impactful in business!

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Damn. This photo has everything: We are all mortal. We will not be young forever and live forever. Don't hold on to things. Don't put things off. Think. Be joyful. Have good manners. And mostly..Show up for loved ones.