January 31, 2010
Move Over, Schrödinger's Cat
If your old dog won't learn any new tricks, try teaching it quantum physics instead.
In How to Teach Physics to Your Dog (Scribner), Chad Orzel does just that. A physics professor at Union College, he uses conversations with his dog as a device to explain quantum physics to the layperson.
Each chapter opens with an exchange between Mr. Orzel, a physics professor at Union College, in Schenectady, N.Y., and Emmy, his German shepherd. Emmy "seizes on some half-understood
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