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One Smart (sort-of) Doggie

Posted by Mark | Filed under Links

I’m sit­ting at the com­puter typ­ing, when the dog bumps up against my legs. I look down, and she’s sniff­ing the floor around my feet intently.

“What are you doing down there?”

“I’m look­ing for steak!” she says, wag­ging her tail hopefully.

“I’m pretty cer­tain that there’s no steak down there,” I say. “I’ve never eaten steak at the com­puter, and I’ve cer­tainly never dropped any on the floor.”

“You did in some uni­verse,” she says, still sniffing.

I sigh. “I’m going to move the quan­tum physics books to a higher shelf, so you can’t reach them.”

Myself, I’ve never had a physics course in my life. I do how­ever have some inter­est in the var­i­ous sci­ences and I have cracked open the occa­sional sci­ence text­book for classes I’ve never been in. Pretty much every time, it makes my brain leak out my ears and causes me to won­der why I bother. Then today while wait­ing for a rather incred­i­bly slow server to fin­ish run­ning my SQL update, I hit up SEB out of bore­dom and found his link to the arti­cle on Uncer­tain Prin­ci­ples. The arti­cle both made sense and made me smile, which lines up nicely with my idea of good teach­ing. So thanks to Les for point­ing out Mr. Orzel’s excel­lent arti­cle and dou­ble thanks to Mr. Orzel for writ­ing it.

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