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Sunday, November 15th, 2009
Untangling Quantum Mechanics
“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 [...]
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Thursday, November 5th, 2009
Why I’m Not an Atheist
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 [...]