On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 11:21 AM, David Roberson <[email protected]> wrote:
Lasers and their kin did not come into play until much later than they were > possible. A.N. Whitehead felt that the ancient Greeks might have had enough knowledge of physics and math to discover that steam could be used a source of locomotive power had they been tea drinkers and observed boiling tea kettles. (I can't find the original quote and am going off of someone's paraphrase.) The practical harnessing of steam power, of course, was a major contributor to the industrial revolution. Albert knew something was not right and he spent much of his life trying to > find the real truth. > I get the sense that Einstein's objections were not with the facts relating to quantum behavior, but with the Copenhagen interpretation specifically. Did his objections go beyond that (Interesting to note that Einstein discovered the photoelectric effect, in which light is observed to behave in a quantum manner.) Eric
