Errata in The Fallacy of Fine Tuning
First printing April 2011
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57 Add to third paragraph: <Note that the photon can only be treated
as a localized particle when its wavelength is less than the spacings
between scattering centers in the medium. For familiar media this
picture would apply for gamma ray energies. Visible light in such media
must be treated as coherent waves.>
p. 65 eqn 3.11 should be mc^2c^2 = . . .
p. 67 fig. 3.3 length of p vector shoud be mc
p. 76 eqn 4.5 should be mc^2c^2 = . . .
Note that these errors are trivial since c = 1 in natural units.
p. 83 line 1 next to last paragraph. Exchange "ba" and "ket."
pp. 80-81. I have been a little sloppy here in referring to the
components of tensors simple as "tensors." While mathematicians will
rightly object, this is rather standard physicist talk.
p. 87 line 7. Add period after "space."
p. 90 line 1 after bullet list. Change <have seen> to <will see> in chapter 10
p. 99 line 1. Change <neutrons> to <neutrinos>.
p. 100 par 2. Change where the second equation to which
p. 109 3rd line from bottom. <Omega=nN> should be <Omega = n^N>
p. 137 line 3 below eq. (6.3). Remove minus sign in front of (ict)^2.
p. 142 3rd line in caption for Fig. 6.8. Change > to <
p. 145 line 5 from bottom, Change its to it's.
p. 161 2nd par. Change to <The Schrodinger equation for the electrons in a general atom>
p. 179-180 Delete section 10.3.
p. 184 Line below equation (10.2) Epsilon should = 0.0075.
p. 185 fig. 10.3. Change 0.100 on y-axis scal to 0.010.
p. 187 line 2. Add subscript p to m.
p. 208 Delete 3rd paragraph beginning with "Note that."
pp. 208, 311, 330 Change date of refernce from 2000 to 2008.
p. 220 eq. 12.8. Remove superscipt 3 from Mpl and put on Lpl in denominator.
p. 249 line 1 in box. Change (0.4) to (14.4).
p. 253 Line 6, Change (1) - (3) to (a) - (c).
p. 254 Line after (14.6). Change (3) to (c).
p. 275 eq. 15.8. Sigma_k should be outside square root.