Errata: The Weight of Quantum

Errata & Notes for:

The Weight of Quantum: Quantum Theory and the Structure of Physics

with Djordje Minic, (CRC Press, June 30, 2026, harcover & paperback) [ CRC ][ A ]
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“ Nah! My dog wags its tail because dogs wag their tails. And I say, ‘There's an error on the board...’
And there is always an error on the board. ” — J.M. Ernst K.G. Stückelberg [as told to TH by J.E. Wess]

The working title “Quantum Gravitas” was rhyming with the Latin proverb “In aqua sanitas, in vino veritas,” to which the Germans add “ Im Beer ist auch Etwas.” — Similarly, the lede paragraph of Chapter 1, explaining the last word in the title of Part I, used to end: “The last-word substitution indicates our own unwillingness to apologize for being right, the omission of Hardy’s personal possessive apostrophe indicating a collective manifesto.”
Then, referees happened, and ...the book saw ink as you now read it; “eppur si muove,” as Galileo would say, sotto voce, “eppur si muove.”

Notation: “p.n” = page n, “P.n” = paragraph n, “l.n” = line n, “S.m.n” = section n of chapter m;
n > 0 is counted downward/forward, n < 0 upward/backward on the page or within the containing part.

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Errata & Corrigenda:

Early printing of the hardcover edition (ISBN 9781041172437) was shipped with ...a different cover design, shown at right.

If you happen to have one of those, we suggest you keep it, as a collectors’ item.

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Additions & Updates:

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Figure 1.1, p.4	Figure 1.2L, p.6		Figure 1.2R, p.6


Figure 1.3L, p.12	Figure 1.3R, p.12		Sidebar, p.39


Figure 2.1, p.20		Figure 2.2, p.26


in-paragraph display, p.38		Figure 2.5, p.56

Figure 2.3, p.45

Figure 2.4L, p.53	Figure 2.4R, p.53


Figure 2.6, p.57			Figure 3.1, p.69

Frequently Asked Questions:

𝒬: Was another such book realy necessary?

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