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What is portrayed in the popular culture between Einstein and quantum mechanics is mostly false. Einstein did accept the basics of quantum mechanics but not non-locality.

So far I've learned a lot about the history of quantum mechanics and the philosophical underpinning of the Copenhagen Interpretation. The debates and inter-science politics between Bohr, Schrodinger, and Heisenberg are enlightening.

Listening to the audiobook. One of the best I've ever listened to.

I'm one-third through The Open Road. At this point it seems to be at least as, probably more, insightful about Pico Iyer as about the Dalai Lama. One-third of what I've read is the author trying to sound smart and ends up sounding like the journalist trying to sound smart.

Audible now has channels available as part of Amazon Prime. See a couple of books I will listen to.

Career of Evil is definitely one of the best books I've read this year.

Through Act I Scene IV. Two of the quotes I highlighted.

"This above all,--to thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man."


"Do not believe his vows; for they are brokers,-- Not of that dye which their investments show, But mere implorators of unholy suits, Breathing like sanctified and pious bawds, The better to beguile."

I'm on the edge of my seat wanting to know what happens next.