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It’s been a very long day, so I’m lying on the couch watching\n“Pardon the Interruption” on ESPN. They’re having a boring
\nconversation about baseball, and I’m just drifting off into a pleasant
\ndoze when:<\/p>\n
It’s been a very long day, so I’m lying on the couch watching
\n“Pardon the Interruption” on ESPN. They’re having a boring
\nconversation about baseball, and I’m just drifting off into a pleasant
\ndoze when:<\/p>\n
“Fear! Fire! Foes! Awake! Fear! Fire! Foes! Awake!<\/em>“<\/p>\n I jolt awake. “What are you barking at?!?” I yell at the dog, who “Scary things!”<\/p>\n The room is empty. “There’s nothing here,” I say, and then hear a She looks sheepish. “No. There were scary things. Evil squirrels!”<\/p>\n “There were not. If there were squirrels here, where did they go?”<\/p>\n “They were evil squirrels. With goatees. They went back into their —-<\/p>\n You can read the rest of the conversation, and a more serious physics explanation with it, at the World Science Festival<\/a> blog. The Festival is June 2-6 in New York City, and I’ll be there on that Sunday signing books as part of the “Author’s Alley” program in the Street Fair<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The dialogue in question was originally written for How to Teach Physics to Your Dog<\/cite><\/a>, but that chapter was dropped for length reasons. I really like the dialogue, though, so I’ve hung onto it (and read it a few times at bookstores and cons), and it might yet appear in a sequel, if there is one.<\/p>\n The physics explanation is new, and radically shorter than the original chapter. The chapter also had some diagrams, and a lot more detail about how extra dimensions work, and how they affect gravity. This gets the basic flavor, though, so if you’ve missed the previous talking-physics-with-the-dog posts and book previews, well, this is the sort of thing you’re missing. You can get a whole lot of it, in either dead-tree or electronic format, wherever books are sold.<\/p>\n (This is the one online thing I mentioned earlier. Now I’m off-line for the rest of the day, barring complete catastrophe of some sort.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s been a very long day, so I’m lying on the couch watching “Pardon the Interruption” on ESPN. They’re having a boring conversation about baseball, and I’m just drifting off into a pleasant doze when: “Fear! Fire! Foes! Awake! Fear! Fire! Foes! Awake!“ I jolt awake. “What are you barking at?!?” I yell at the… Continue reading Evil Squirrels from Extra Dimensions<\/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":[18,19,142,265,33,7,61,37,11,52,14,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-experiment","category-how-to-teach","category-in_the_media","category-in_the_news","category-physics","category-physics_with_emmy","category-pop_culture","category-science","category-science_books","category-string_theory","category-theory","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4700","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=4700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nis standing in the middle of the living room, baying at nothing. She
\nstops.<\/p>\n
\ncar door slam. I look outside, and see the mathematician next door
\nheading into his house. “Were you barking at Bill? He’s harmless!”<\/p>\n
\nhome dimension.”<\/p>\n