{"id":26673,"date":"2009-06-22T15:10:09","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T15:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/06\/22\/physics-to-a-dog-a-poem\/"},"modified":"2009-06-22T15:10:09","modified_gmt":"2009-06-22T15:10:09","slug":"physics-to-a-dog-a-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/22\/physics-to-a-dog-a-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Physics, To A Dog (A poem)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>To a dog, a balloon is a rock that floats.<br \/>\nTo a dog, a lever is a perch for stoats.<\/p>\n<p>To a dog, particle decay<sup>1<\/sup> is not about nooks<br \/>\nTo a dog, gravity is just another way to puke.<\/p>\n<p>To a dog, a quantum is a kibble<br \/>\nTo a dog, a quark is to nibble.<\/p>\n<p>To a dog, where the yard ends begins the cosmos<br \/>\nTo a dog, periodic tables<sup>2<\/sup> iz a no-nos.<\/p>\n<p>To a dog, dark matter is what cats must do<br \/>\nTo a dog, string theory is for cats too.<\/p>\n<p>To a dog, it is better to sleep<br \/>\nTo a dog, don&#8217;t tickle the heap.<sup>3<\/sup><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Notes<\/strong><br \/>\n<sup>1<\/sup>Bone munching<br \/>\n<sup>2<\/sup>Do not take food off the table.  Periodically.<br \/>\n<sup>3<\/sup>A veiled reference to &#8220;tickling the dragon&#8217;s tail&#8221; during early A-bomb research.  Dogs prefer if you tickle their stomach instead.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/06\/how_to_teach_physics_to_your_d_3.php\"><br \/>\nWhy this poem? <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To a dog, a balloon is a rock that floats. To a dog, a lever is a perch for stoats. To a dog, particle decay1 is not about nooks To a dog, gravity is just another way to puke. To a dog, a quantum is a kibble To a dog, a quark is to nibble. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/22\/physics-to-a-dog-a-poem\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Physics, To A Dog (A poem)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[169],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6Wd","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26673"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}