Three changes to 'Comment on "A glance beyond the quantum model" '

As a result of correspondence with Miguel Nevascués, I have communicated three changes to Proc. Roy. Soc. A,

• to include an acknowledgment, "I am grateful for very helpful correspondence with Miguel Nevascués";
• to change the first sentence of the Summary so that it does not make two incorrect claims about the aims of NW's paper, so that it would read "“A glance beyond the quantum model” uses a modernized Correspondence Principle that begins with a discussion of particles, whereas in empirical terms particles are secondary to events.";
• to change one sentence in my concluding paragraph to say "Navascués’ and Wunderlich’s paper requires comment where something less ambitious would have gone unchallenged", saying "comment" instead of saying "a vigorous condemnation", which I can hardly believe I wrote.

Miguel's comments were indeed very helpful. There are other changes I would like to make to my Comment, but I will only think about making them if, against likelihood, the referees recommend acceptance with changes.

For anyone reading this who hasn't submitted papers to journals, waiting for the acceptance or rejection letter is hard work, with an inhuman time-scale that is usually months but can be much shorter, depending on the vicissitudes of referees' schedules and whims. So every time an e-mail arrives from the time a paper is submitted, for several months, it may be the dreaded rejection. It's easier if you're relatively sure you've hit a sweet spot of conventional ideas that you feel sure most Physicists will get, but then the paper is perhaps not close enough to the edge to be more than a little interesting.