At its core, The Magic of Reality successfully accomplishes what it sets out to do: take a broad approach to clearly explain natural phenomenon and clarify what makes the world work the way that it does. Yet ironically, the book’s purity becomes tainted when it acts quite unlike a scientist and delves into the realm of subjective speculation to answer questions where the scientific evidence isn’t as compelling.The Magic of Reality begins with a chapter titled, “What is Reality? What is Magic?” which sets the rules for how we ought to determine what is true. This is based on our senses, evidence, and scientific models that both make reality-predictions and are dynamic in order to accommodate new information. Resultantly, the author affirms that “how we know what’s really true” is based on a system that is neither infallible nor does it offer exact explanations for everything that can be observed.
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