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Geneviève Doyle

@gennerveevy.bsky.social

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Science Educator, LGBTQIA advocate, mum of four, trans, intersex, bi. Intersectional Feminist. cPTSD, ND (2 kids too). Leftie a.f. Living on unceded lands of the Gundungarra NSW, Australia https://www.paypal.me/gennyclare buymeacoffee.com/genevievecq

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Geneviève Doyle @gennerveevy.bsky.social · Oct 31

Although formally a science and mathematics educator, I am somewhat a polymath. I’ve held almost every position there is in K-12 schools. My ‘easy’ - as in subject that I taught the most - is Physics. One of my chief skills is adjusting abstract concepts to general audiences.

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Geneviève Doyle @gennerveevy.bsky.social · 3m

It’s probably hit or miss to an extent, but I now feel it’s imperative. There are people trying to push us into another dark age.❤️

Geneviève Doyle @gennerveevy.bsky.social · 3m

I wrote a little article about Quantum Tunnelling. I enjoy trying to find ways to explain without equations or diagrams. I’m still a teacher by character, and try to bridge between what I find interesting and what others may not have been able to access.

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Geneviève Doyle @gennerveevy.bsky.social · 3m

But these are fun diversions from the anxiety-inducing timeline we’re in.

Geneviève Doyle @gennerveevy.bsky.social · 3m

I’m probably annoying Chris, but he’s very easy-going. I play games on my phone that are no doubt nothing like what he would play. 😂 I make the occasional comment, like ‘I found the Blubbies but not the Flubbies’ and ‘so glad to get to Moana world. Goofy is kind of creepy’. 😅

Geneviève Doyle @gennerveevy.bsky.social · 3m

The dishwasher is leaking again, and everyone is washing up manually rather than contact the Landlord. It’s a leaking hose that one of his tradies never connected properly.

Geneviève Doyle @gennerveevy.bsky.social · 3m

Saturday, October 11th, 2025

A windy but fine 22°C. We had a restful day in, got a load of washing done. One of the flatmates tinkered with an old charcoal bbq, and seems to have used it. We all pretty much keep to ourselves, we do talk to this guy, though.

Photo of the post author. A woman in her 50’s standing outdoors.

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Geneviève Doyle @gennerveevy.bsky.social · 40m

Thanks Kelly! I had a lot of fun trying to think of how to communicate it.

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the Juice Media @thejuicemedia.com · 1d

The Government of New Zealand has made a new tourism ad and it's surprsingly honest and informative!

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Geneviève Doyle @gennerveevy.bsky.social · 1h

I write these for a general audience. I’m a qualified science educator. 18/18

Geneviève Doyle @gennerveevy.bsky.social · 1h

Several years later, it was found that it had indeed been predicted in a bubble equation that most people didn’t use, because the mathematics was horrendous. 17/18

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Geneviève Doyle @gennerveevy.bsky.social · 1h

They set a camera up to show this to the rest of the lab. No one could explain it, but they couldn’t deny it was real. 16/18

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Geneviève Doyle @gennerveevy.bsky.social · 1h

One day, one of the people in the lab is chatting with their colleague near the 1cm hole. She sees a bubble squeeze through the 1cm hole, then resume its 5cm wide size. Like … a cartoon bubble. The best part is that her colleague saw it as well. 15/18

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Geneviève Doyle @gennerveevy.bsky.social · 1h

The weirdness goes on for two years. The bubbles aren’t appearing at exactly monthly intervals, and the people have ruled out a regular delivery guy trying to be funny. 14/18

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Geneviève Doyle @gennerveevy.bsky.social · 1h

Four weeks later, it happens again. This time, a thorough examination finds a 1cm hole. The bubbles that appear are always 5cm diameter roughly. So it’s not considered to be the answer. 13/18

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Geneviève Doyle @gennerveevy.bsky.social · 1h

This time, people start looking for holes in the wall that the lab shares with the giant bubble room. The bubble was about 5 cm wide. No holes were noticed after a quick look. At least nothing like that size. 12/18

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Geneviève Doyle @gennerveevy.bsky.social · 1h

A month later, there’s another bubble in the lab. It too is written off as from elsewhere than the giant bubble room next door. Roughly a month later, there’s another bubble in the lab. 11/18

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Geneviève Doyle @gennerveevy.bsky.social · 1h

One day, there’s a bubble in the lab. It’s not supposed to happen, as the giant room is sealed. In fact, it’s written off as having come from elsewhere. 10/18

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Geneviève Doyle @gennerveevy.bsky.social · 1h

Imagine a giant room full of fairly strong bubbles. Next to that giant room is a modest lab that aren’t particularly studying quantum physics. 9/18

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Geneviève Doyle @gennerveevy.bsky.social · 1h

What is Quantum Tunnelling?

An analogy (or worse). I have to warn you that a lot of the deep understanding of quantum physics really does lie in mathematics. And it’s at the edge of my grasp. 8/18

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Geneviève Doyle @gennerveevy.bsky.social · 1h

It’s thought to be important in photosynthesis and enzyme activity, and an essential part of nuclear decay and nuclear fusion. 7/18

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Geneviève Doyle @gennerveevy.bsky.social · 1h

Quantum Tunnelling has become relied-upon physics in numerous technologies. Modern semiconductors such as flash memory rely on it, the Scanning Tunnelling Electron Microscope depends on it. 6/18

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Geneviève Doyle @gennerveevy.bsky.social · 1h

An aside: one reason some famous scientists didn’t win Nobel prizes is that experimental verification has to have happened. Einstein got one - but not for Relativity - for the Photoelectric Effect. Stephen Hawking didn’t, as experiments involving black holes were and are not a thing yet. 5/18

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Geneviève Doyle @gennerveevy.bsky.social · 1h

We get away with using classical physics at our scale - but it’s an approximation made valid by us being such a very large collection of atoms. Essentially we experience a statistical summary of what billions of particles are doing. 4/18

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Geneviève Doyle @gennerveevy.bsky.social · 1h

The experiments showed that quantum physics wasn’t just the domain of the very tiny. There isn’t an arbitrary size whereupon the rules change from classical physics to quantum physics. 3/18

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Geneviève Doyle @gennerveevy.bsky.social · 1h

Quantum Tunnelling had been predicted in the 1930’s and Quantum Physics being far from esoteric and in fact an accurate description of reality was mainstream amongst physicists by the 1950’s. 2/18

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