“Dr. Hale, can you put that into common everyday language?” said the syrupy-smooth voice of the interviewer.
“That is common language, sir. Scientifically expressed, in terms of the Heisenberg contraction principle, then n to the seventh power in parentheses, representing the pseudo-position of a Diedrich quantum-integer in relation to the seventh coefficient of curvature of mass—”
“Thank you, Dr. Hale, but I fear you are just a bit over the heads of our listeners.”
And your own head, thought Roger Phlutter.
“I am sure, Dr. Hale, that the question of greatest interest to our audience is whether these unprecedented stellar movements are real or illusory.”
“Both. They are real with reference to the frame of space but not with reference to the frame of space-time.” “Can you clarify that, Doctor?”
“I believe I can. The difficulty is purely epistemological. In strict causality, the impact of the macroscopic—The slithy roves did gyre and gimble in the wabe, thought Roger Phlutter.
“—upon the parallelism of the entropy-gradient.”
“Bah!” said Roger aloud.
“Did you say something, sir?” asked the waitress. Roger noticed her for the first time. She was small and blonde and cuddly. Roger smiled at her.