Wu Li and reality
Thursday, October 12th, 2006
Although Albert Einstein’s ideas served to pave the way for a new branch in physics, called quantum mechanics, he struggled all through his life to counter its validity and implications . His critique was centred upon the fundamental quality of probability that rules the world of quantum mechanics. When faced with the fact that in the subatomic realm nothing can be extrapolated and relies, at best, on statistics, he exclaimed: “I cannot believe that God plays dice with the cosmos. – Gott würfelt nicht.” As a matter of fact, however, he had to admit that the ‘old’ physics as developed by Sir Isaac Newton can neither predict nor explain what happens in the microcosmos
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