Sean Merritt Einstein was almost certainly using a metaphor when he alluded to God - much as evolutionary biologists use teleological sounding language when talking about the purpose of an adaptation. As the quote above suggests, Einstein was big on Occam's Razor. Which is to say he embraced clean simple solutions, not contrived simple minded solutions.
Sean Walker Einstein was deeply troubled about Quantum Mechanics even though he contributed to the subject. His Nobel prize was for the photoelectric effect not for relativity. He was wrong about duality, and the probabilistic nature of QM. Spooky Action or Action at Distance was another troubling item but now we know entanglement is real it's the basis for quantum computers.
Sean Walker despite some misspellings this is the gist of the matter: http://ysfine.com/einstein/eincopen.html Basically AE was a pretty stubborn and just plain wrong on several issues. It does not diminish his legacy but the spirt of the quote was violated by him in my opinion.
Precisely. He should act to make changes he thinks should be made based on seeing what is.
ReplyDeletethis from a guy who said "God doesn't play dice with the world." (context Quantum Mechanics, God kinda does throw dice)
ReplyDeleteNiels Bohr retorted "Stop telling God what to do with his dice."
Sean Merritt Einstein was almost certainly using a metaphor when he alluded to God - much as evolutionary biologists use teleological sounding language when talking about the purpose of an adaptation. As the quote above suggests, Einstein was big on Occam's Razor. Which is to say he embraced clean simple solutions, not contrived simple minded solutions.
ReplyDeleteSean Walker Einstein was deeply troubled about Quantum Mechanics even though he contributed to the subject. His Nobel prize was for the photoelectric effect not for relativity. He was wrong about duality, and the probabilistic nature of QM. Spooky Action or Action at Distance was another troubling item but now we know entanglement is real it's the basis for quantum computers.
ReplyDeleteSean Merritt We are having different conversations - perhaps because I misunderstood the point you were making in your original comment...
ReplyDeleteSean Walker despite some misspellings this is the gist of the matter:
ReplyDeletehttp://ysfine.com/einstein/eincopen.html
Basically AE was a pretty stubborn and just plain wrong on several issues. It does not diminish his legacy but the spirt of the quote was violated by him in my opinion.