From Andrew Scott
Having just read the review of Max Tegmark’s latest book (18 January, p 46) I have to ask: do physicists who believe in the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics really think that in a version of reality everyone in my street has just run outside naked screaming “Yumple is a Bumbler”? And in another version are they screaming “Yumple is a Bop”? While in another, do they have saucepans on their heads? I could continue, infinitely. Sometimes I wonder if I am living in a version of reality in which physicists who believe such things are considered sane.
Oh and by the way, my latest book is called… [editor’s note: in this reality shameless adverts for books tend to be edited out, as the correspondent predicted].
Dunning, Perth and Kinross, UK
