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In 1924, Einstein was still struggling to accept what he had unearthed: ‘I find the idea quite intolerable that an electron exposed to radiation should choose of its own free will, not only its moment to jump off, but also its direction. In that case, I would rather be a cobbler, or even an employee in a gaming-house, than a physicist.’

— Jul 22, 2021 05:34AM

Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality

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'I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics’, said the celebrated American Nobel laureate Richard Feynman in 1965, ten years after Einstein’s death. With the Copenhagen interpretation as firmly established as the quantum orthodoxy as any papal edict issued from Rome, most physicists simply followed Feynman’s advice.

— Jul 26, 2021 02:02AM

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However, what was the medium through which an electron wave travelled? The question was akin to asking what does the wave function in Schrödinger’s wave equation represent? In the summer of 1926 a witty little ditty summed up the situation that confronted Schrödinger and his colleagues:

Erwin with his psi can do
Calculations quite a few.
But one thing has not been seen:
Just what does psi really mean?

Lol.

— Jul 23, 2021 10:46PM

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‘Physics at the moment is again very muddled; in any case, for me it is too complicated, and I wish I were a film comedian or something of that sort and had never heard anything about physics’, wrote Pauli in May 1925, some six months after discovering the exclusion principle.

— Jul 23, 2021 05:36AM