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		<title>Untangling Quantum Mechanics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Any who says he understands quantum mechanics,” Niels Bohr once said, “doesn’t know the first thing about it.” Bohr, a Danish physicist who helped invent (discover?) quantum theory a century ago, presumably excluded himself from this dictum.
Quantum mechanics, which describes the behavior of electrons, neutrons, protons, photons and other tiny things, is arguably the most [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stevens.edu/csw/cgi-bin/blogs/csw/?p=904</link>
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		<title>Why I’m Not an Atheist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my last post, I presented 10 responses to the question: “God: Who Needs Him (or Her)?”, which my pal Garry Dobbins and I recently debated at Stevens. One of my responses was this: “Childhood cancer. Tsunamis. Earthquakes. If God is all-powerful and loves us, why do bad things happen to totally innocent people? This [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stevens.edu/csw/cgi-bin/blogs/csw/?p=900</link>
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		<title>God: Who Needs Him (or Her)?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Garry Dobbins, a philosophical rabble-rouser who is my friend and colleague at Stevens, and I debated the question above on October 21 in front of a couple dozen students and a handful of faculty. I was raised Catholic but have been an agnostic since I was 12 or, except for brief periods of weakness. So [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stevens.edu/csw/cgi-bin/blogs/csw/?p=889</link>
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		<title>Will Nuclear Fusion Save Us?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We need more energy! That urgent message kept bursting through a panel discussion at Stevens on October 14 on “Fossil Fuels in the Year 2050.” The panel featured Paul Winstanley, Director of Energy Initiatives here at Stevens, as well as experts from the Department of Energy, Penn State and Shell Oil. The discussion, sponsored by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stevens.edu/csw/cgi-bin/blogs/csw/?p=887</link>
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		<title>Einstein Was Wrong (about Free Will)!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“If the moon, in the act of completing its eternal way around the earth, were gifted with self-consciousness, it would feel thoroughly convinced that it was traveling its way of its own accord… So would a Being, endowed with higher insight and more perfect intelligence, watching man and his doings, smile about man’s illusion that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stevens.edu/csw/cgi-bin/blogs/csw/?p=885</link>
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		<title>Is Free Will An Illusion?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is modern life better than the Stone Age? Why or why not? I recently forced students in my scitech history class to contemplate these questions. I presented their responses in a recent post and said that soon I’d provide my own answer. Here goes.
“In today’s world anyone can try to do anything they want,” wrote [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stevens.edu/csw/cgi-bin/blogs/csw/?p=883</link>
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