“It’s just ants and elephants,” she said. “The complete genealogical make-up of a sugar ant is actually the perfect proof that elephants exist.”
“More proof than, say, photographing an elephant?”
She shot me a dirty look. “There are some things people can’t photograph, Jude. And for the things people can’t photograph, we as the intelligent minority of our generation must use other methods to accommodate for proof, Jude.”

So neener neener in-your-face neener, Jude.
I tried very hard not to pout.

“I still don’t see how that proves other dimensions,” I said. “Alright, yes, the fact that we’re in the third dimension does theoretically point to there being a first and second. And you can say words like tesseract and Minkowski Space and The O’Reilly Factor but none of that leads to their existence. Sugar ants don’t prove unicorns or global warming or elephants. They just prove sugar ants.”