A recent article in Live Science, by Eric Cavalcanti, summarized ongoing research into aspects of quantum mechanics that call into question our perception of reality inasmuch as two observers of certain quantum events can both be correct in spite of experiencing contradictory results at the same time.

Actually, I have been struggling with what constitutes reality ever since I learned that there were such things as alternative facts. One would think that a fact is a fact for which there can be no contradictory alternative; otherwise, you never had a fact to begin with. But now we have science, no less, telling us that two contradictory facts can be true at the same time.

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