Once the field was prepared, and preliminaries of the game all settled, the bettings all made and goods all “staked,” night came on without the appearance of any players on the ground.

More facts, better education and less fake news are a start. But such strategies alone are unlikely to break through social media bubbles. One study of 2.6 million Facebook users found that anti-vaxxers and pro-vaxxers tend to gravitate towards others who share their views.

Afterwards there was apple-pie and cream and a welsh rarebit. Peregrine said it was almost up to prison fare.

On Math, Matter and Mind Max Tegmark refers to the many-worlds situation of component 'observers' as moving from a 'birds eye' view to a 'frog view', the frog being inside the process of the wavefunction (figure 3).