I haven’t sent it off to my editor yet– I need to look it over one more time to see if there are horrible mistakes anywhere– but I’m officially declaring the third draft of the book-in-progress to be complete. It clocks in at 61,518 words, and 240 pages. That’s 50% more words than the contract calls for, but it is down 8,000 words and 23 pages from the second draft.<\/p>\n
Most of the reduction came from dropping the former Chapter 9, which was an uneasy fit with the rest of the material. It may become a web site extra at some point in the future. The rest of the edits included some substantial re-working of Chapters 2 and 5, dropping whole sections of each, along with a general tightening up of everything. I think it’s less conversational than the previous draft, but it’s probably punchier, if that makes sense.<\/p>\n
This ought to be the official final turned-in draft, though I’m sure there are a host of things to be done after this. For now, I’m going to enjoy being Done, and head off to Scenic Whitney Point for the holidays.<\/p>\n
For those who care, the table of contents is below the fold.<\/p>\n
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\nQuantum Physics for Dogs, v3.0.1\n\nIntroduction\n Why Talk to Your Dog About Physics?: \n An Introduction to Quantum Physics____________________________2\nChapter 1: \n Which Way? Both Ways: Particle-Wave Duality__________________11\nChapter 2: \n Where's My Bone?: The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle__________38\nChapter 3: \n Schr\u00c3\u00b6dinger's Dog: The Copenhagen Interpretation________________59\nChapter 4: \n Many Worlds, Many Treats: The Many-Worlds Interpretation________85\nChapter 5: \n Are We There Yet?: The Quantum Zeno Effect___________________110\nChapter 6: \n No Digging Required: Quantum Tunneling_______________________125\nChapter 7: \n Spooky Barking at a Distance: Quantum Entanglement____________146\nChapter 8: \n Beam Me a Bunny: Quantum Teleportation______________________174\nChapter 9:\n Bunnies Made of Cheese: Virtual Particles and \n Quantum Electro-Dynamics________________________________198\nChapter 10: \n Beware of Evil Squirrels: Mis-uses of Quantum Physics____________222\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I haven’t sent it off to my editor yet– I need to look it over one more time to see if there are horrible mistakes anywhere– but I’m officially declaring the third draft of the book-in-progress to be complete. It clocks in at 61,518 words, and 240 pages. That’s 50% more words than the contract… Continue reading Quantum Physics for Dogs, v3.0.1<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-progress_report","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}