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Perhaps “Johnson’s cake” can now replace Schrödinger’s cat as the macroscopic manifestation of quantum superposition of states (‘Have your cake and eat it’ – is this the Tory Brexit plan?, 29 November)? Unfortunately, someone has to open the box at some point and observe the system…Mike WhittakerStapleton, ShropshirePerhaps “Johnson’s cake” can now replace Schrödinger’s cat as the macroscopic manifestation of quantum superposition of states (‘Have your cake and eat it’ – is this the Tory Brexit plan?, 29 November)? Unfortunately, someone has to open the box at some point and observe the system…Mike WhittakerStapleton, Shropshire
• Instead of putting a match to the sports section and other rejected weekend stuff, your correspondent (Letters, 29 November) could sit on a pile of them to do lengthy, low-down pruning jobs in the garden. All the hot air gives supplements extra insulation properties, it seems.Helen YemmWadhurst, East Sussex• Instead of putting a match to the sports section and other rejected weekend stuff, your correspondent (Letters, 29 November) could sit on a pile of them to do lengthy, low-down pruning jobs in the garden. All the hot air gives supplements extra insulation properties, it seems.Helen YemmWadhurst, East Sussex
• How pleasant, amid all the Brexit and Trump doom and gloom, to read your Public Service Awards supplement (30 November). An uplifting tribute to people who believe in the ethic of service to their communities and put it into practice so successfully in the face of constant government-imposed constraints.Paul F FaupelSomersham, Cambridgeshire• How pleasant, amid all the Brexit and Trump doom and gloom, to read your Public Service Awards supplement (30 November). An uplifting tribute to people who believe in the ethic of service to their communities and put it into practice so successfully in the face of constant government-imposed constraints.Paul F FaupelSomersham, Cambridgeshire
• I thought sundown only happened in westerns (Weather view, 29 November). In Kent, England, it is called sunset.Steve VanstoneWolverhampton• I thought sundown only happened in westerns (Weather view, 29 November). In Kent, England, it is called sunset.Steve VanstoneWolverhampton
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