From Andrew Whiteley, Consett, County Durham, UK
Your perceptive article rightly contends that physics (and probably any area of human understanding) can’t be done without metaphysics. This is because of the questions that are unavoidably raised around our view of the nature of reality. This is why I favour a return to the old term “natural philosophy” for science in its broadest sense, since the acquisition of evidence and the forming and testing of theories are only part of what scientists actually do and think about(28 June, p 40).
