Mott the Hoople (08-04-2021)
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Mott the Hoople (08-04-2021)
The only thing Einstein was correct in unifying both models/theories was the speed of light.
Mott the Hoople (08-04-2021)
Right.
I need to research Godel more.
Einstein accepted QM. In a sense, he was one of the founders of QM, going back to his 1905 paper on the photoelectric effect.
What Einstein hated was Bohr's Copenhagen interpretation of QM. Einstein was a scientific realist who could not abide by the Bohr's instrumentalist approach to the quantum wave function collapse. Einstein at heart believed in a deterministic universe, and he just thought Bohr's probabilistic interpretation of QM must be missing some fundamental variables or insights needed to make the theory compete.
AProudLefty (07-27-2021)
This is Godel and Einstein bullshitting around with each other.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2...time-bandits-2
Cypress (07-27-2021)
As another member of the institute, the physicist Freeman Dyson, observed, “Gödel was . . . the only one of our colleagues who walked and talked on equal terms with Einstein.” But if Einstein and Gödel seemed to exist on a higher plane than the rest of humanity, it was also true that they had become, in Einstein’s words, “museum pieces.” Einstein never accepted the quantum theory of Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg. Gödel believed that mathematical abstractions were every bit as real as tables and chairs, a view that philosophers had come to regard as laughably naďve. Both Gödel and Einstein insisted that the world is independent of our minds, yet rationally organized and open to human understanding. United by a shared sense of intellectual isolation, they found solace in their companionship. “They didn’t want to speak to anybody else,” another member of the institute said. “They only wanted to speak to each other.”
Warning: watching this video will cause a collapse of a black hole due to combined IQs.
Here is Einstein walking like a boss. Einstein and Godel were good friends and they feel comfortable with each other. And they hated Bohr.
But Godel did keep Einstein on the level. It makes sense that it is a unsolvable problem.
I think the scientific paradigm is shifting a little away from Bohr's Copenhagen interpretation of QM, back towards the scientific realism Einstein wanted. The question is if the Quantum wave function collapse really dependent on the subjective knowledge of the observer? Or is there something deterministic and objectively real there, per the MWI interpretation.
AProudLefty (07-27-2021)
Ancient Atomism
First published Tue Aug 23, 2005; substantive revision Thu Dec 15, 2016
A number of important theorists in ancient Greek natural philosophy held that the universe is composed of physical ‘atoms’, literally ‘uncuttables’. Some of these figures are treated in more depth in other articles in this encyclopedia: the reader is encouraged to consult individual entries on Leucippus, Democritus, Epicurus and Lucretius. These philosophers developed a systematic and comprehensive natural philosophy accounting for the origins of everything from the interaction of indivisible bodies, as these atoms—which have only a few intrinsic properties like size and shape—strike against one another, rebound and interlock in an infinite void.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/atomism-ancient/
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