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| Nov 30, 2015 at 23:07 | comment | added | Alexander S King | Einstein was refuted on his statements w/r to QM by Aspects et al experimental confirmation that Bell's inequalities were indeed violated in 1982. There's still a chance that nature is not random, but if it is, then it is not local (Einstein called this spooky action at a distance), which has even more disturbing effects on causality than quantum randomness. | |
| Nov 30, 2015 at 17:26 | comment | added | Nelson Alexander | True, Einstein never accepted the Copenhagen interpretation and I'm not sure what he thought about Boltzmann's statistical entropy or someone like Prigogine. He was a Spinozian, I believe, and in that sense was a bit "outdated" even in his own later years, though one hesitates to say such thing about Einstein.... who is, after all, Einstein! | |
| Nov 30, 2015 at 16:16 | comment | added | Philip Klöcking♦ | Regarding the first sentence: "The theory [quantum mechanics] says a lot, but does not really bring us any closer to the secret of the "old one." I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw dice." - Albert Einstein (in a letter to Max Born, Dec. 4th, 1926) | |
| Nov 30, 2015 at 14:53 | history | answered | Nelson Alexander | CC BY-SA 3.0 |