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Simple principles have large consequences

January 2, 2008 – 5:37 am

Wolfgang Pauli won the Nobel prize in physics in 1945 for his famous Pauli Exclusion Principle. Very simply, it states that no 2 electrons can occupy the same state at the same time. This principle is a consequence of basic quantum mechanical laws, such as that tiny particles like electrons are indistinguishable from each other. […]

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Science and Religion?

December 18, 2007 – 5:51 pm

This, from Paul Davies in the New York Times:
SCIENCE, we are repeatedly told, is the most reliable form of knowledge about the world because it is based on testable hypotheses. Religion, by contrast, is based on faith. The term “doubting Thomas” well illustrates the difference. In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, […]

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