{"id":2714,"date":"2008-07-01T11:08:30","date_gmt":"2008-07-01T11:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/07\/01\/book-report-5\/"},"modified":"2008-07-01T11:08:30","modified_gmt":"2008-07-01T11:08:30","slug":"book-report-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/07\/01\/book-report-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been ages since I reported on the status of Bunnies Made of Cheese: The Book<\/cite>. For most of that time, that’s because there was nothing to report– I sent a draft off to my editor, and was awaiting comments.<\/p>\n

When I finally did get comments, the August 1 deadline was beginning to loom, particularly since the comments were of the form “Aiiieeeee!!!! Much too difficult!!!!” and called for really significant rewriting. That’s been a large part of the reason for the relative lack of posting around here– my computer time has been devoted to frantically revising draft chapters.<\/p>\n

I’m up through Chapter 6, now, and sent a big pile of revisions off for editorial comment this morning, so I thought I might as well post an update:<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Introduction<\/strong>
\nFirst Draft: 1,301
\nSecond Draft: 1,805<\/p>\n

Chapter 1: Particle-Wave Duality<\/strong>
\nFirst Draft: 5,333
\nSecond Draft: 7,527<\/p>\n

Chapter 2: The Uncertainty Principle<\/strong>
\nFirst Draft: 4,501
\nSecond Draft: 5,964<\/p>\n

Chapter 3: The Copenhagen Interpretation<\/strong>
\nFirst Draft: 4,777
\nSecond Draft: 7,077<\/p>\n

Chapter 4: The Many-Worlds Interpretation<\/strong>
\nFirst Draft: 4,830
\nSecond Draft: 6,230<\/p>\n

Chapter 5: The Quantum Zeno Effect<\/strong>
\nFirst Draft: 3,339
\nSecond Draft: 3,926<\/p>\n

Chapter 6: Quantum Tunneling<\/strong>
\nFirst Draft: 4,410
\nSecond Draft: 5,210<\/p>\n

As you’ll notice, revising this to include more low-level explanation has drastically increased the length. In fact, if you’re quick with arithmetic, you’ll note that the introduction and first six chapters now total 37,739 words, when the contract calls for 40,000 words, with five more chapters to go. This is probably going to be an issue at some point, but that point is not now.<\/p>\n

And now, back to the revising, in hopes of finishing the next draft before FutureBaby arrives. But first, some context-free dog dialogue:<\/p>\n

“So, it’s like if I tried to measure the bunny wavefunction by marking its position when I went out to chase it, but sometimes I was chasing squirrels instead of bunnies?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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