From P RENDELL
Julian Brown’s article is an example of what I call cocktail science
(‘Is the Universe a computer?’, 14 July). This occurs in discussions with
a futuristic and scientific content over the third or fourth cocktail. They
often occur in the presence of nonscientists and are as imaginative as the
cocktails but as shallow as the glasses.
Brown provides a good performance, but I would advise cocktail partygoers
to find better sources of material, as the mixture of arguments from theoretical
and practical models is distracting.
P. Rendell Coventry, West Midlands
