{"id":1805,"date":"2007-10-07T11:04:01","date_gmt":"2007-10-07T11:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/10\/07\/book-report-1\/"},"modified":"2007-10-07T11:04:01","modified_gmt":"2007-10-07T11:04:01","slug":"book-report-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/10\/07\/book-report-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Books? I like books!”<\/p>\n

Here’s the next occasional book progress update:<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Introduction<\/strong>
\nCurrent Revision: 1
\nTotal Words: 422 (dialogue only)<\/p>\n

Chapter 1: Particle-Wave Duality<\/strong>
\nCurrent Revision: 5a
\nTotal Words: 5,279<\/p>\n

Chapter 2: The Uncertainty Principle<\/strong>
\nCurrent Revision: 7
\nTotal Words: 4,499<\/p>\n

Chapter 3: The Copenhagen Interpretation<\/strong>
\nCurrent Revision: 2
\nTotal Words: 4,801<\/p>\n

The Introduction dialogue isn’t exactly new– I wrote it a while back– but it was part of the stuff that I sent to my agent to get feedback on, so I’ll throw it in here.<\/p>\n

Chapter 2 has been rather comprehensively revised, and the last couple of sections were completely re-written. Chapter 3 is new, and this revision was actually pretty good– Kate had only relatively minor edits, and didn’t point out any major structural problems. I need to go over it quickly, but I think I’ll be pushing on to Chapter 4: The Many-Worlds Interpretation next.<\/p>\n

Length may be an issue, as this is already 15,000 words (give or take). There are probably a couple hundred superfluous “really”s in there, though, and another hundred or so “also”s that could be dropped. I’m just not dealing with that at this point, though.<\/p>\n

I may be in the market for some technical proofreading in the near future, to check whether I’m saying anything really idiotic by accident. More on that later.<\/p>\n

Bonus Out-of-Context Dog Dialogue<\/strong>: “Now, you can argue about who counts as an observer–“<\/p>\n

“Not a cat, that’s for sure. Cats are dumb.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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