{"id":2053,"date":"2007-12-09T10:30:02","date_gmt":"2007-12-09T10:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/12\/09\/book-report-4\/"},"modified":"2007-12-09T10:30:02","modified_gmt":"2007-12-09T10:30:02","slug":"book-report-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/12\/09\/book-report-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a couple of weeks since the last progress report, and Emmy is getting concerned.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-2f56954bad397478447ea0f411340169-sm_concerned.jpg\" alt=\"i-2f56954bad397478447ea0f411340169-sm_concerned.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So what&#8217;s the status of the book, anyway?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Introduction<\/strong><br \/>\nCurrent Revision: 1<br \/>\nTotal Words: 430 (dialogue only)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chapter 1: Particle-Wave Duality<\/strong><br \/>\nCurrent Revision: 5a<br \/>\nTotal Words: 5,279<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chapter 2: The Uncertainty Principle<\/strong><br \/>\nCurrent Revision: 7<br \/>\nTotal Words: 4,499<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chapter 3: The Copenhagen Interpretation<\/strong><br \/>\nCurrent Revision: 2<br \/>\nTotal Words: 4,801<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chapter 4: The Many-Worlds Interpretation<\/strong><br \/>\nCurrent Revision: 3<br \/>\nTotal Words: 4,869<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chapter 5: The Quantum Zeno Effect<\/strong><br \/>\nCurrent Revision: 2<br \/>\nTotal Words: 3,263<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chapter 6: Quantum Tunneling<\/strong><br \/>\nCurrent Revision: 4<br \/>\nTotal Words: 4,426<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chapter 7: Entanglement<\/strong><br \/>\nCurrent Revision: 3<br \/>\nTotal Words: 6,343<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chapter 8: Quantum Teleportation<\/strong><br \/>\nCurrent Revision: 0.5<br \/>\nTotal Words: 3,566<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bonus Context-Free Dog Dialogue<\/strong>: &#8220;You&#8217;re pretty smart, but you&#8217;re no Einstein.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8217;m, like, the canine Einstein, though, right?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Sure. As far as I know, you&#8217;re the Einstein of the dog world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Tunneling chapter required a <strong>lot<\/strong> of revisions, but I eventually got it into a state where Kate agreed that it was comprehensible. Weirdly, she had very few comments on the Entanglement chapter, which either means that I&#8217;ve talked about this stuff so much that I&#8217;ve gotten really good at explaining it, or she&#8217;s heard it before, and can&#8217;t spot the glaring holes. Tough call, really.<\/p>\n<p>The Entanglement chapter got really long, but it covers a lot of material: EPR, Bell&#8217;s theorem, a short aside about Bohmian mechanics, and the Aspect experiments testing Bell&#8217;s theorem. I don&#8217;t really see any way to cut any of that out, or spin it off into a separate chapter, but despite being almost 20% longer than any other chapter, I think it reads pretty well.<\/p>\n<p>The Teleportation chapter is still in progress, though it&#8217;s mostly just missing some concluding and summing-up remarks. If you&#8217;re wondering about my <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/12\/how_to_handwave_quantum_phase.php\">earlier question<\/a>, I went with a combination of the geometric analogy and Perry&#8217;s state-counting argument, and I think it works out all right. It&#8217;s really hard to explain in any kind of detail without algebra, though, so it&#8217;s a bit more hand-wavy than many of the other chapters. I&#8217;ll finish the first pass this week, and we&#8217;ll see how it looks then.<\/p>\n<p>I doubt there&#8217;ll be much progress today, though, as we&#8217;re going out to get a Christmas treee, and then there&#8217;s football to watch&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a couple of weeks since the last progress report, and Emmy is getting concerned. 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