{"id":3432,"date":"2009-02-22T15:10:09","date_gmt":"2009-02-22T15:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/02\/22\/mr-earbrass-writes-a-pop-scien\/"},"modified":"2009-02-22T15:10:09","modified_gmt":"2009-02-22T15:10:09","slug":"mr-earbrass-writes-a-pop-scien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/02\/22\/mr-earbrass-writes-a-pop-scien\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Earbrass Writes a Pop-Science Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Holding <cite>TUH<\/cite> not very neatly done up in pink butcher&#8217;s paper, whcih was all he could find in a last-minute search before leaving to catch his train for London, Mr Earbrass arrives at the offices of his publishers to deliver it. The stairs look oddly menacing, as though he might break a leg on one of them. Suddenly, the whole thing strikes him as very silly, and he thinks he will go and drop his parcel off the Embankment and thus save everyone concerned a good deal of fuss.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Edward Gorey, <cite>The Unstrung Harp; or, Mr Earbrass Writes a Novel<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I have just now sent off the (hopefully) final manuscript of the book-in-progress. The last round of comments that I got a couple of weeks ago was relatively minor, thank God. It&#8217;s remarkably difficult to proofread changes to a 200-odd page manuscript, all the same. I can&#8217;t wait to see what the copyeditors do to it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not quite ready to drop the whole thing off the Embankment, and email spares my publisher dealing with pink butcher&#8217;s paper, but it is an odd feeling.<\/p>\n<p>The table of contents:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong><cite>Bunnies Made of Cheese:<br \/> <br \/>\nQuantum Physics for Dogs, v4.0.3<\/strong><\/cite><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Introduction:<br \/>\n\tWhy Talk to Your Dog About Physics?:<br \/> <br \/>\n\tAn Introduction to Quantum Physics______________________\t3<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 1:<br \/> <br \/>\nWhich Way? Both Ways: Particle-Wave Duality__________________\t15<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 2:<br \/> <br \/>\nWhere&#8217;s My Bone?: The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle_________\t50<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 3:<br \/> <br \/>\nSchr\u00c3\u00b6dinger&#8217;s Dog: The Copenhagen Interpretation_______________\t77<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 4: <br \/>\nMany Worlds, Many Treats: The Many-Worlds Interpretation______\t111<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 5: <br \/>\nAre We There Yet?: The Quantum Zeno Effect___________________\t144<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 6: <br \/>\nNo Digging Required: Quantum Tunneling_______________________\t163<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 7: <br \/>\nSpooky Barking at a Distance: Quantum Entanglement____________\t190<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 8: <br \/>\nBeam Me a Bunny: Quantum Teleportation______________________\t226<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 9:<br \/>\nBunnies Made of Cheese: Virtual Particles and <br \/>\nQuantum Electro-Dynamics_____________________________\t258<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 10: <br \/>\nBeware of Evil Squirrels: Mis-uses of Quantum Physics____________\t284<\/li>\n<li>Further Reading___________________________________________________\t308<\/li>\n<li>Glossary__________________________________________________________\t310<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This may look dramatically longer than the previous drafts, but that&#8217;s mostly because the previous drafts were space-and-a-half, and I bumped this one up to double-space. It&#8217;s actually a couple of pages shorter, mostly from Chapter 7.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Further Reading&#8221; section is something I&#8217;ve had kicking around for a while. The Glossary is a late addition, added during the previous draft. It doesn&#8217;t have a formal bibliography at present, because I think that tends to look a little scary, and it&#8217;s not like the target audience is going to run out and read <cite>Zeitschrift fur Physik<\/cite> articles, anyway. I do have most of a bibliography (it was complete a couple of drafts ago, but some bits have changed), which will eventually go up on a web page for interested readers.<\/p>\n<p>And now, I need to find something else to do with my free time. Like, say, my day job&#8230; Exam grading, here I come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holding TUH not very neatly done up in pink butcher&#8217;s paper, whcih was all he could find in a last-minute search before leaving to catch his train for London, Mr Earbrass arrives at the offices of his publishers to deliver it. 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