Feast or folly

I have been reading Michael Frayn’s The Human Touch, his book about what we (can) know about the nature of the world, the universe & everything, & our place in (creating) the whole shebang.

It probably goes straight to the top of my Good Read list of books about philosophy – because of the humour, even though at times the tone veers into Victor Meldrew or even Basil Fawlty.

Jeremy Bernstein once gave a rather disobliging review of the quantum physics in Frayn’s play Copenhagen; Frayn rather gets his own back here by cataloguing the differences & contradictions of explanation or statements about philosophy recorded by the physicists themselves.