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Is it possible that the most famous critic of quantum mechanics actually invented most of its fundamentally important concepts?
Besides quantizing light energy and seeing its interchangeability with matter, E = mc2, Einstein was first to see many of the most fundamental aspects of quantum physics - the quantal derivation of the blackbody radiation law, nonlocality and instantaneous action-at-a-distance (1905), the internal structure of atoms (1906), wave-particle duality and the “collapse” of the wave aspect (1909), transition probabilities for emission and absorption processes that introduce indeterminism whenever matter and radiation interact, making quantum mechanics a statistical theory (1916-17), the indistinguishability of elementary particles with their strange quantum statistics (1925), and the nonseparability and entanglement of interacting identical particles (1935).
It took the physics community eighteen years to accept Einstein’s light-quantum hypothesis. He saw wave-particle duality fifteen years before deBroglie, Schrödinger, Heisenberg, and Bohr. He saw indeterminism a decade before the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. He saw nonlocality as early as 1905, presenting it formally in 1927, but was ignored. In the 1935 Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paper, he explored nonseparability, which was dubbed “entanglement” by Schrödinger.
In a radical revision of the history of quantum physics, Bob Doyle explores Einstein’s idea of objective reality to resolve several of today’s most puzzling quantum mysteries, including the two-slit experiment, quantum entanglement, and microscopic irreversibility.
Title
My God, He Plays Dice!: How Albert Einstein Invented Most Of Quantum Mechanics
Author
Bob Doyle
Book Format
Paperback
Publisher
Information Philosopher
Published
February 2019
Weight
600g
Dimensions
15.3 x 22.9 x 2.4 cm
ISBN
9780983580249
ISBN-10
0983580243
Eden Code
4980681
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