Gabriel was watching a programme on the BBC, Horizon, on the different conceptions of reality.

Apparently reality is not as certain as it seems. Advances, particularly in the field of quantum physics, point to inexplicable phenomena which don’t follow the rules of conventional science. Perfectly respectable physicists argue for parallel universes and strange links between time and space, further complicated by curious physical effects of observation. The straightforward, textbook physics I was familiar with no longer seems to hold the entire truth.

Perhaps we are moving toward a realisation that the architecture of the universe, including ourselves, stems from a will of a single, powerful entity. These curious advances at the edge of knowledge seem hugely more mesmerising than the questions of daily life.