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Bunnies Made of Cheese: The Second Draft

By drorzel on August 1, 2008.

The second complete draft was sent off to my editor yesterday, and after a little bit of excitement regarding files that wouldn't open, it was successfully delivered. There were only minor changes since the last update, mostly having to do with the figures and section headers and so on.

I'll put the table of contents below the fold, but meanwhile, here's a silly picture of me talking to the dog about quantum physics:

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Bunnies Made of Cheese:

Talking to Your Dog About Quantum Physics

(Second Draft, 7/31/08)

  • Introduction

    Why Talk to Your Dog About Physics?: An Introduction to Quantum Physics 2
  • Chapter 1:

    Which Way? Both Ways: Particle-Wave Duality 10
  • Chapter 2:

    Where's My Bone?: The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle 37
  • Chapter 3:

    Schrödinger's Dog: The Copenhagen Interpretation 61
  • Chapter 4:

    Many Worlds, Many Treats: The Many-Worlds Interpretation 84
  • Chapter 5:

    Are We There Yet?: The Quantum Zeno Effect 108
  • Chapter 6:

    No Digging Required: Quantum Tunneling 124
  • Chapter 7:

    Spooky Barking at a Distance: Quantum Entanglement 146
  • Chapter 8:

    Beam Me a Bunny: Quantum Teleportation 174
  • Chapter 9:

    Bunnies Made of Cheese: Virtual Particles and Quantum Electro-Dynamics 198
  • Chapter 10:

    Evil Squirrels with Goatees: The Physics of Extra Dimensions 224
  • Chapter 11:

    Beware of Evil Squirrels: Mis-uses of Quantum Physics 245

Current word count is 68,449 according to Word, or 64,215 without the footnotes (I put a bunch of humorous asides and historical anecdotes into footnotes. I tried very hard to restrain my inner David Foster Wallace.). This is, um, a lot more than 40,000, but I think the explanations are clearer for it.

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Forget BMoC, how is the first draft of FutureBaby coming along?

Oh yeah, and what's next after BMoC, btw? A book of Quantum Physics bedtime stories for kids? Totally serious suggestion, btw.

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