{"id":4885,"date":"2010-07-25T08:28:59","date_gmt":"2010-07-25T08:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/07\/25\/how-to-teach-physics-to-your-j\/"},"modified":"2010-07-25T08:28:59","modified_gmt":"2010-07-25T08:28:59","slug":"how-to-teach-physics-to-your-j","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/07\/25\/how-to-teach-physics-to-your-j\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Teach Physics to Your Japanese Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"

The vanity search this morning turned up something I hadn’t seen before:<\/p>\n

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That’s the Japanese edition<\/a> of How to Teach Physics to Your Dog<\/cite><\/a>. I knew one was in the works, but hadn’t heard when it would be out.<\/p>\n

Of course, I can’t read any of it other than my own name (rightmost column of the cover text, from top to bottom). So I turn to Google Translate<\/a>, which does wonders with the product description:<\/p>\n

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Dogs have been collected by Professor Chad Emmy physics, quantum physics interested in all of the owner. Amazing ideas of quantum physics, every day, “honoring” significant useless wanted to apply. In quantum tunneling through a fence that can be? Quantum teleportation, but I want to use to catch squirrels? The steak is down to go into space!<\/p>\n

So Chad, what is quantum physics, Emmy or how they work (and human readers) would be to explain. Particles behave like waves, Heisenberg uncertainty, and spooky action at a distance of quantum entanglement, quantum physics is very strange, but very useful to humans and dogs. Popular Science phenomenally fun and unique. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I can sort of puzzle out what this is intended to be, because it resembles some of the publicity copy we wrote (or something that started its life as some of the publicity copy we wrote). But this is a terrific reminder that we’re a long, long way from Star Trek<\/cite> style universal translation.<\/p>\n

Anyway, if you’re in Japan, or read Japanese, you can now pick up your very own copy of How to Teach Physics to Your Dog<\/cite>. I have no idea who did the translation– hopefully not Google’s automatic service– or if it’s any good. I’d love to know how they rendered “Bunnies made of cheese,” though, so if you see a copy, drop me a line and let me know.<\/p>\n

The steak is down to go into space!<\/p>\n

(Japanese Amazon link via this blog post<\/a>, which appears to start off with some Tour de France commentary, and had me saying “What the hell?” before I got to the link at the bottom of the post.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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