Flat Earth, Ancient Aliens, and Science Denial

A First-Year Tutorial offered fall 2021, taught by Leo Rodriguez, assistant professor of physics 

In this tutorial section, students will perform a critical study/analysis of popular new age (meta) physical theories concerning the geometric shape of our home planet, its architectural archeology and genesis. The idea of hard science and its methods will be introduced. Scientific methods will be applied in the analysis of the validity of popular new age (meta) physical theories. Students will devise and conduct testable and reproducible experiments, in class and in the field, to test relevant hypotheses and thus deduce their own conclusions about the physical world.