What’s the point?
It is perhaps the biggest question of them all. Does life have a meaning? Seven authors give us their answer
PHILIP PULLMANNOVELIST
Here we are, alive and conscious, in a universe that seems to be made of material things like atoms and quarks and Higgs bosons and so on, which are undoubtedly there but possess enigmatic, ghostlike properties that are hard to grasp, such as entanglement and the wave/particle duality. What are we to make of it all?
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