Monday, February 20, 2012

Saturday, February 4, 2012

Amusing physics comment

You can't always get what you want! From Lederman & Hill's book, Quantum Physics for Poets (a wonderful book and a recommended read):

The notion that nature (or God) plays dice with subatomic stuff never sat well with Einstein, Schrodinger, de Broglie, Planck, and others. Einstein cherished the belief that quantum theory was merely a stopgap, which would eventually be replaced by a theory that was deterministic and causal. Over the years, he made many clever attempts to show that uncertainty relations could be circumnavigated, but they were foiled, one by one, with relish, by Bohr.