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Letter: Making sense of quantum cause and effect (1)

Published 10 December 2025

From Alistair Fraser, Whanganui, New Zealand

As an ordinary reader trying to make sense of the universe before breakfast, I was delighted by your feature on quantum causality. The idea of “causal bubbles” gave me a way to picture the quantum world without feeling out of my depth (29 November, p 36).

By chance, I had just finished your article on the ancient origins of sperm (29 November, p 11). It struck me that these two stories – one probing the deepest structure of reality, the other tracing the machinery that eventually produced all of us – sit together beautifully: the same quantum rules shaping electrons also shape the proteins powering our earliest ancestors. For once, physics and biology felt like they belonged to one big cosmic whakapapa (lineage).

Issue no. 3573 published 13 December 2025

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