Physics Is Going to the Dogs

There's been an independent rediscovery of the notion of using dogs to explain physics, as you can see in this YouTube video of Golden Retrievers explaining the structure of atoms:

Emmy thinks she should get royalties, in the form of cheese. But then, she thinks that about everything...

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I liked the annotations. 'bottom quark'. Tee hee.

Bottom quark! Best post of the morning!