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How to teach Relativity to your dog

it's a book
but my dog
cannot read.
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How to teach Relativity to your dog

it's a book
but my dog
cannot read.

Now, what does this post mean?

You might not know, but lurkers might know.
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On 04/29/2026 08:31 PM, The Starmaker wrote:

The Starmaker wrote:

How to teach Relativity to your dog

it's a book
but my dog
cannot read.

Now, what does this post mean?

You might not know, but lurkers might know.

Your dog can't read?

Maybe you should take it out and school it.


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On 4/30/26 08:55, Ross Finlayson wrote:

On 04/29/2026 08:31 PM, The Starmaker wrote:

The Starmaker wrote:

How to teach Relativity to your dog

it's a book
but my dog
cannot read.

Now, what does this post mean?

You might not know, but lurkers might know.

Your dog can't read?

Maybe you should take it out and school it.

Once upon a time, my dog disappeared.

It might be that was so long ago, that every
dog on Earth that lived when that happened,
has passed away and now there are other dogs
on the Earth.

At the time I fantasized. Aliens from outer
space took the dog, and like in the novel
'The Island of Doctor Moreau' used surgery and
growth factors on the brain and nervous system
of the dog, to make the dog a hyperintelligent
being with an indefinite lifespan. Perhaps the
dog is still flying around out there among the
stars with other alien beings.

And of course Starmaker knows that god and
dog are sort of spelled backward in English.
How many people are a thousand, a million,
a billion? Everyone who once lived in the
year 1900 are now dead? You can look up
the words 'Jeanne Calment','Old Tom Parr',
and 'Methuselah'? Is it actually true that
'the grim reaper is actually grim'? We can
only hope that fantasies become true, just
like my dog.




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On 04/30/2026 04:27 PM, x3 wrote:

On 4/30/26 08:55, Ross Finlayson wrote:

On 04/29/2026 08:31 PM, The Starmaker wrote:

The Starmaker wrote:

How to teach Relativity to your dog

it's a book
but my dog
cannot read.

Now, what does this post mean?

You might not know, but lurkers might know.

Your dog can't read?

Maybe you should take it out and school it.

Once upon a time, my dog disappeared.

It might be that was so long ago, that every
dog on Earth that lived when that happened,
has passed away and now there are other dogs
on the Earth.

At the time I fantasized. Aliens from outer
space took the dog, and like in the novel
'The Island of Doctor Moreau' used surgery and
growth factors on the brain and nervous system
of the dog, to make the dog a hyperintelligent
being with an indefinite lifespan. Perhaps the
dog is still flying around out there among the
stars with other alien beings.

And of course Starmaker knows that god and
dog are sort of spelled backward in English.
How many people are a thousand, a million,
a billion? Everyone who once lived in the
year 1900 are now dead? You can look up
the words 'Jeanne Calment','Old Tom Parr',
and 'Methuselah'? Is it actually true that
'the grim reaper is actually grim'? We can
only hope that fantasies become true, just
like my dog.

Usually if the dog ran away and didn't come back,
it was ran over. Or, "strays", vis-a-vis, "the dog catcher"

Also "retiring to the farm" was often a euphemism,
though sometimes it was true.

Dogs are feeling beings and have senses and emotions,
though not much else going on upstairs, nor experience.

There are a variety of considered approaches
to: "life after death".

In at least one account, your lost dog
lives again, as somebody else's dog.


The "On a Pale Horse" doesn't have "Death" as necessarily grim.
There are various accounts of experience post mortem,
for example why some choose cremation over burial,
and some accounts of, "second life", or the "near death".


Like other feeling and thinking beings, these animals
enjoy reliability and safety, yet, independence and freedom.

The account of "independence" and "freedom", and correspondingly "responsibility" and "conscience", is considered apropos for
the human beings.


"All men are mortal /
Socrates is a man /
thus Socrates is mortal /
and left this world long ago /
we remember him /
Socrates lives."


"If you love somebody / set them free."

How about "Catcher in the Rye". Better than "Of Mice and Men".
Sort of better than "Beneath the Wheel" or "Magister Ludi".
When you read Catcher in the Rye, Caulfield's catharsis
about his dream is that it is so. Siddhartha, though,
Siddhartha's pretty great.






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The Starmaker wrote:

The Starmaker wrote:

How to teach Relativity to your dog

it's a book
but my dog
cannot read.

Now, what does this post mean?

You might not know, but lurkers might know.

Now, I look at the title of this book: "How To Teach Relativity To Your
Dog"


the title appears to me to be...condescending.


(typical of 'science guys' in newsgroups)


Is it possible that the author of this book is a 'lurker' here?



Maybe...used to post here sometime ago but suddendly stopped??



It's even possible that within the title of the book lies a ...clue.


A teacher
that teaches
Relativity
to you dogs?
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From Newsgroup: sci.physics.relativity

On 05/01/2026 08:42 AM, The Starmaker wrote:

The Starmaker wrote:

The Starmaker wrote:

How to teach Relativity to your dog

it's a book
but my dog
cannot read.

Now, what does this post mean?

You might not know, but lurkers might know.

Now, I look at the title of this book: "How To Teach Relativity To Your
Dog"

the title appears to me to be...condescending.

(typical of 'science guys' in newsgroups)

Is it possible that the author of this book is a 'lurker' here?

Maybe...used to post here sometime ago but suddendly stopped??

It's even possible that within the title of the book lies a ...clue.

A teacher
that teaches
Relativity
to you dogs?

Try "Old Yeller" and "Where the Red Fern Grows",
they make kids cry.


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On 05/01/2026 09:06 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:

On 05/01/2026 08:42 AM, The Starmaker wrote:

The Starmaker wrote:

The Starmaker wrote:

How to teach Relativity to your dog

it's a book
but my dog
cannot read.

Now, what does this post mean?

You might not know, but lurkers might know.

Now, I look at the title of this book: "How To Teach Relativity To Your
Dog"


the title appears to me to be...condescending.


(typical of 'science guys' in newsgroups)


Is it possible that the author of this book is a 'lurker' here?



Maybe...used to post here sometime ago but suddendly stopped??



It's even possible that within the title of the book lies a ...clue.


A teacher
that teaches
Relativity
to you dogs?

Try "Old Yeller" and "Where the Red Fern Grows",
they make kids cry.

Yeah, it's not exactly clear whether "Old Yeller" is
suitable for school-aged audiences, yet these days
when the gamut ranges from "Henny the Happy
Hermaphrodite" to "I Stasi, You Stasi, We All Stasi",
it is so that "Old Yeller" was the _only_ movie that
was ever shown in school as a one-time event.

That was the most kids crying at once in school,
second to Jenny's funeral which was the most
tragic event, while yet Jenny is a real person.

So, "Old Yeller" was considered a maturational event,
maybe we even had to get a signed permission slip.


Then, years later in junior high school, the only
next event of bringing in television was for a
special event of a space launch, and we didn't
even have to watch it in gym class, though I
didn't hear about anybody crying about that,
though the intercom did annunciate not to
make nor repeat jokes like "NASA:
Need Another Seven Astronauts".
So, that was considered a failed experiment.



Then, the only way anybody got movies in school
was though the Library A/V aide dragging the
television and VCR down to their classroom,
which is a job I happily handed off.


Then, at some point "Channel One" came around,
not even the real "Channel One" just some commercials
and product placements, that was after my time and
it's considered entirely not-suitable for the classroom.


In some classes they did watch movies regularly
or often, those were considered nothing better to do,
so, it was pretty much never that way except for
student-produced short films themselves.

And that one shock film in driver's ed.


Perhaps you'd be happier with "The Red Balloon"
or reading "The Petit Prince", or something like
"Charlie the Lonesome Cougar". Happy endings, ....


The "Where the Red Fern Grows" was just popular.
There is a book for "Old Yeller", also, though,
since in those days we never watched movies
without reading the book. For example, I had
all three Star Wars books.

Television didn't have books, everybody knows
that's just make-believe anyways, and we had
newspapers for news. They even had to make
"comic books" into "graphic novels".


Anyways, spoiler alert, in "Old Yeller" and
in "Where the Red Fern Grows", the dogs die.





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From Newsgroup: sci.physics.relativity

The Starmaker wrote:

The Starmaker wrote:

The Starmaker wrote:

The Starmaker wrote:

How to teach Relativity to your dog

it's a book
but my dog
cannot read.

Now, what does this post mean?

You might not know, but lurkers might know.

Now, I look at the title of this book: "How To Teach Relativity To Your Dog"

the title appears to me to be...condescending.

(typical of 'science guys' in newsgroups)

Is it possible that the author of this book is a 'lurker' here?

Maybe...used to post here sometime ago but suddendly stopped??

It's even possible that within the title of the book lies a ...clue.

A teacher
that teaches
Relativity
to you dogs?

Okay, here is the first clue (and it's a big one)...

"How To Teach Relativity To Your Dog"

dog/god

let's play Scrabble!

dog
god

odd?

Interesting? a picture of a ...dog?

https://www.physicsforums.com/members/phinds.310841/
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