Thus, 6 years will have passed between the idea of exploring the possible link between Zeno’s paradoxes and thermal motion and the final acceptance of the article resulting from this idea.
It’s certainly rather long, but it should be remembered that I was starting from almost nothing (i.e. that I had a big bibliographical research to do), that I didn’t work at all on this article project during my two full time positions in chemistry (which is why I then negotiated part-time post-doc contracts afterwards), and that I sometimes had periods of discouragement (always working alone on a project is not ideal in this respect!), and/or periods when my passion for panoramic photography was a bit (too) out of control !! 
| Date | Personal ‘publication’ activity | Activities in chemistry |
|---|---|---|
| Sept. 2011 | Article idea related to Zeno’s Paradox + start of bibliographic research | unemployment |
| Oct. 2011 – Sept. 2012 | Project on break | Full time post-doc |
| Oct. 2012 | Resuming bibliographical research + Writing of 1st version. | unemployment |
| Nov. 2013 – April 2014 | Project progress slowed | Full time post-doc |
| March 2014 | Submission of 1st version to the journal ‘Foundations Of Science’ | unemployment |
| May 2014 | Beginning of a 70% part-time post-doc | |
| Oct. 2014 | Editor’s decision: refusal to publish (but with constructive feedback from reviewers) | |
| => Work on additional bibliographical research + modifications and numerous additions for a 2nd version | ||
| April 2015 | Submission of 2nd version to the journal ‘Synthese’ | |
| Sept. 2015 | Editor’s decision: refusal to publish (main reason = manuscript too long), but always with constructive feedback from the reviewers. | Ending of a 70% part-time post-doc |
| Oct. 2015 | => Work on additional bibliographical research | unemployment |
| Nov. 2015 – Jan. 2016 | 80% part-time post-doc | |
| Fev. 2016 – April 2017 | => Work on additional bibliographical research + Completely changed the structure of the manuscript: 1 ‘main publication 3rd version’ + 2 other publications as annexes. | unemployment |
| April 2017 | main publication in the process of being corrected + start of drafting of one of the 2 annex publications | |
| June 2017 | Submission of 3rd version to the journal ‘Synthese’ (refusal of review) | |
| June 23 2017 | Submission of 3rd version to the journal ‘Foundations Of Science’ | |
| August 23 2017 | Acceptation with major changes | |
| Sept. 30 2017 | Submission Revised Manuscript | |
| Oct. 13 2017 | Acceptation with minor changes | |
| Oct. 13 2017 | Submission 2nd Revised Manuscript | |
| Oct. 20 2017 | Final acceptance | |
| Nov. 8 2017 | On-line publication |