Professor David Albert

Professor David Albert author of Quantum Mechanics and Time and Chance goes into inter alia the philosophical implications of physics. Are there objective matters of fact? The more science tells us about the world, the stranger it looks. Initial conditions can help explain different present results. Laws governing going backwards are the same as those governing going forwards. The whereabouts of subatomic particles has ramifications as regards the locations of tables and chairs and the contents of our thoughts.