From: Integral World [newsletter@integralworld.net] Sent: zondag 12 juli 2009 12:33 To: f.visser3@chello.nl Subject: [personal] On Playing Dice INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST =========================== http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 284 Amsterdam, July 12th, 2009 SPOOKY PHYSICS: EINSTEIN vs. BOHR, PART II: EINSTEIN DOESN'T PLAY DICE - Andrea Diem-Lane What is it about quantum theory that so troubled Einstein that he would spend nearly a quarter of his life trying to find a replacement for it? The answer is perhaps a bit simpler than we might suspect. Einstein was a realist and believed in an objective universe that exists outside of our subjective observations of it. What so bothered Einstein about quantum theory (even though he contributed to it with his photoelectric effect and Brownian motion papers and appreciated its many strengths) was that it was inherently probabilistic and that at its philosophic and methodological core was an uncertainty principle which pointed to the variability of human measurement. As John Wheeler, the eminent physicist at Cornell and Princeton and the University of Texas at Austin, later stated, “There is no phenomena unless it is an observed phenomena.” Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/diem-lane5.html A ADDTHIS button has been placed at the top-left of the homepage, so you can send this site to your social neworks friends easily. If you know other people interested in this Integral World Newsletter, please forward this mail to them. Thanks. To SUBSCRIBE to this Integral World Newsletter or change your email address, click here: http://www.integralworld.net/pommo/user/subscribe.php To UPDATE your email address or UNSUBSCRIBE, click here: http://www.integralworld.net/pommo/user/login.php