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168 CHAPTER 37. QUANTUM MECHANICS: BOHR • Bohr thought clearly, wrote obscurely, and thought of himself as a prophet • But what is light really? Is it a wave or a shower of photons? There seems no likelihood for forming a consistent description of the phenomena of light by a choice of only one of the two languages. It seems as though we must use sometimes the one theory and sometimes the other, while at times we may use either. We are faced with a new kind of difficulty. We have two contradictory pictures of reality; separately neither of them fully explains the phenomena of light, but together they do. (with Leopold Infeld in The Evolution of Physics). • You (Born) believe in the God who plays dice, and I in complete law and order in a world which objectively exists, and which I, in a wildly speculative way, am trying to capture...Even the great initial success of quantum theory does not make me believe in the fundamental dice game, although I am well aware that our younger colleagues interpret this as a consequence of senility. No doubt that day will come when we shall see whose instinctive attitude was the correct one. • What we call science has the sole purpose of determining what is. • This epistemology-soaked orgy ought to come to an end...No doubt, however, you smile at me and think that, after all, many young heretic turns into an old fanatic, and many young revolutionary becomes an old reactionary. • Almost all other fellows do not look from facts to the theory but from the theory to the facts; they cannot extricate themselves from a once accepted conceptual net, but only flop about it in a grotesque way. 37.3 Dirac • Now we have to start all over again, because Einstein proved that it does not work 37.4 Bohr • Einstein, stop telling God what to do
37.5. HEISENBERG 169 in response to Einstein’s: God does not play dice with the universe. 37.5 Heisenberg • The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum theory starts from a paradox. 37.6 Dirac • I feel that we do not have definite physical concepts at all if we just apply working mathematical rules; that’s not what the physicist should be satisfied with. 37.7 Schrödinger • I am opposing not a few special statements of quantum physics held today (1950s), I am opposing as it were the whole of it, I am opposing its basic views that have been shaped 25 years ago, when Max Born put forward his probability interpretation, which was accepted by almost everybody. • If all this damned quantum jumping were here to stay, then I shall be sorry I ever got involved with quantum theory. • There is a difference between a shaky or not sharply focused photograph and a photograph of clouds and fog banks. (Schrödinger on the Copenhagen Interpretation in The Present Situation in Quantum Mechanics 1935) • Bohr’s standpoint, that a space-time description is impossible, I reject ad limine...Today I no longer like to assume that an individual process of this kind is “absolutely random” that is completely undetermined. I no longer believe today that this conception accomplishes much. (1926) • With very few exceptions (such as Einstein and Laue) all the rest of the theoretical physicists were unadulterated asses and I was the only sane person left...The one great dilemma that ail us... day and night
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