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Various Science Topics and Themes

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 possible first because there are physical laws which exist by which such accomplishments could be effected, second because we have managed to discover those laws, and third because we applied ourselves and spent the money, time, and human energy necessary to make the dream come true. We could build the bob in the 1940s because Einstein and those who followed him showed the nature of the building blocks of the universe and how their energy could be released. We c...

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