February 7, 2010

Move Over, Schrödinger's Cat

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Matt Milless

Chad Orzel's conversations with Emmy, his German shepherd, resulted in the newly published "How to Teach Physics to Your Dog."

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Matt Milless

Chad Orzel's conversations with Emmy, his German shepherd, resulted in the newly published "How to Teach Physics to Your Dog."

By Mary Helen Miller

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, in Schenectady, N.Y., 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 and Emmy, his German shepherd. Emmy "seizes on some half-understood principle of

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