We’re out for a walk, when the dog spots a squirrel up ahead and takes off in pursuit. The squirrel flees into a yard and dodges around a small ornamental maple. Emmy doesn’t alter her course in the slightest, and just before she slams into the tree, I pull her up short.<\/p>\n
“What’d you do that for?” she asks, indignantly.<\/p>\n
“What do you mean? You were about to run into a tree, and I stopped you.”<\/p>\n
“No I wasn’t.” She looks off after the squirrel, now safely up a bigger tree on the other side of the yard. “Because of quantum.”<\/p>\n
We start walking again. “OK, you’re going to have to explain that,” I say.<\/p>\n
“Well, I have this plan,” she says. “You know how when I chase the bunnies in the back yard, when I run to the right of the pond, they go left, and get away?”<\/p>\n
“Yes.”<\/p>\n
“And when I run to the left of the pond, they go right, and get away?”<\/p>\n
“Yes.” <\/p>\n
“Well, I’ve thought of a new way to run, so they can’t escape.”<\/p>\n
“What, right through the middle of the pond?” It’s only about eight inches deep and a couple of feet across.<\/p>\n
“No, silly. I’m going to go both ways. I’ll trap the bunnies between me.”<\/p>\n
[…]<\/p>\n
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Because I keep getting odd looks when I describe my book project at this meeting, I whipped up a pdf version of chapter one, so I can point people to it and give them a feel for what it’s like. This is just the latest draft version of Chapter 1, saved as a PDF.<\/p>\n
Important caveats: this is not a final version, and I’m putting it up here for demonstration purposes only. It’s subject to change dramatically before it gets close to publication. It’s also subject to disappearing entirely, if I decide to take it down so as not to spoil things. But for the moment, at least, here’s the first chapter, on Particle-Wave Duality<\/a>.<\/p>\n The snippet above is just a teaser from the dog dialogue that opens the chapter. It’s followed by a longer explanation aimed at human readers, with occasional interjections from the dog. The conceit is that she’s reading along as I go through the draft, and pointing out spots where I didn’t provide enough information to answer all her questions.<\/p>\n I hope you enjoy it, and I hope this gives a clearer picture of what’s going on than the elevator pitch that keeps getting me sideways looks…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We’re out for a walk, when the dog spots a squirrel up ahead and takes off in pursuit. The squirrel flees into a yard and dodges around a small ornamental maple. Emmy doesn’t alter her course in the slightest, and just before she slams into the tree, I pull her up short. “What’d you do… Continue reading Quantum Physics for Dogs Preview<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,7,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book_writing","category-physics","category-physics_with_emmy","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}