Physics World and MoG
Yipee. Wow. Gosh.
I was informed yesterday that Physics World are going to feature an article of mine in their July issue! I had thought that my recent experience of a public talk on science and religion (see ‘The Big Bang and the Mind of God’ post below) might make a suitable article for their quirky backpage (Lateral Thoughts), and it seems they think so too…
Physics World is the flagship publication of the Institute of Physics. It’s a physics magazine of very high standard, easily my favourite (it’s a bit like a European version of the American Physics Today, but better). PW regularly has excellent, comprehensive articles on every area of physics research today, written by world-class researchers.
One snag - the dreaded words “we’ve made a few small changes”. In fact, the copy-editor made quite a lot of changes, especially at the beginning. To me, it doesn’t read like my voice at all. It’s something I’ll never understand, the compulsion of editors to change submitted prose around. What writer wants their carefully chosen words changed? Besides, all too often, the ‘edited’ version conveys a slightly different meaning to that originally intended…
So I’m now engaged in a process of trying to reach a compromise. I spent hours today trying to incoporate the changes I can live with, and sent the result back. Hopefully, we can each agreement.
Sigh. One day I’ll have my own magazine column somewhere!
