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It is not fair to equate a reading of Shakespeare with knowledge of the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The latter is a scientific law that applies equally in all places and at all times. It is subject to experimentation and adjustment when and if it is found wanting, but in general it is not subject to interpretation. Shakespeare is subject to interpretation, and it is indeed exacted that there will be several different interpretations possible of any given play. This would be true even if the text were set and permanent, which admittedly it is not with Shakespeare because there are variations depending on different early copies of the play with slightly different wording or with passages added or deleted. Still, even for a given, set text, a play is subject to different interpretations and a variety of possible meanings. A play involves human behavior, after all, and human behavior is not subject to the same unchangeable and predictable laws as are physical processes. We do not interpret the Second Law of Thermodynamics. It is an explanation and a tool. Shakespeare is a body of dramatic depictions which have meaning to each individual in the audience or in the readership for these plays, and a number of interpretations will have validity.

2. The fact that we can accomplish one scientific advance in one field does not mean that we could apply the same methods to any scientific problem and solve it. Getting a human being to the moon or building an atomic bomb are

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uries that certain substances increase the likelihood of the onset of cancer, and such substances are known as carcinogens. When a substance is thought to cause cancer, as is the tar in cigarettes, a hypothesis is developed that the use or ingestion of the substance will cause cancer. The hypothesis can be tested in different ways, one of which would include the application of the substance to the backs of rats in the laboratory. If the experiment leads to the development of cancer in the rats, the results are shown to be consistent with the hypothesis, though this does not mean that the hypothesis is proven. That would take much more data, many more trials, and other types of experiment to prove. While there is clearly evidence that cigarette smoking causes cancer and other health problems, people continue to smoke for a number of reasons, such as because they do not believe they will be one of those stricken, because they are too young to believe in their own mortality, because they are addicted and cannot stop, and so on. "Security in Numbers" What was the problem being investigated? The problem is the rising tide of crime in urban regions and different strategies for dealing with it, notably the placing of numbers
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