No bridge across the quantum rift

The last decade has seen a proliferation of books which attempt to explain the conceptual paradoxes of quantum mechanics in a non-technical way. This latest contribution, by David Albert, professor of philosophy at Columbia University, is brash, readable, provocative and at times breathtakingly naive and ill-informed. It will probably cause mild apoplexy, for both good reasons and bad, in a sizeable fraction of the professional quantum measurement community.