G e moore biography of albert einstein

  • As an outstanding academic and public citizen, his life and ideas continue to provide good examples of a life well-used and worth remembering.
  • Albert Einstein: Philosopher, Scientist.
  • Albert Einstein: Philosopher-Scientist, edited by Paul A. Schilpp.

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    Einstein saw a wave randomly "collapse" twenty years before there was a "wave function" and the Schrödinger wave equation. He discovered the existence of indeterministicchance as a "weakness" in quantum theory over a decade before Heisenberg published his uncertainty principle.
    He deplored his discoveries.

    chance. "A weakness in the theory," he called it in 1916. He lamented at that time to his friend Michele Besso that he was the only scientist who believed in the reality of what we now call photons, "I do not doubt anymore the reality of radiation quanta, although I still stand quite alone in this conviction." On a careful reading of his 1905 photoelectric effect paper, we can see that Einstein was already concerned about faster-than-light actions, thirty years before his Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paper popularized the mysteries and paradoxes of quantum nonlocality and entanglement. We hope to show that many of today's controversies in the interpretations of quantum mechanics

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    Integral World: Exploring Theories of Everything

    An independent forum for a critical discussion of the integral philosophy of Ken Wilber

    David Christopher Lane, Ph.D. Professor of Philosophy, Mt. San Antonio College Lecturer in Religious Studies, California State University, Long Beach Author of Exposing Cults: When the Skeptical Mind Confronts the Mystical(New York and London: Garland Publishers, 1994) and The Radhasoami Tradition: A Critical History of Guru Succession(New York and London: Garland Publishers, 1992).

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    Albert Einstein - Autobiography (Excerpts)

    Comments on Quantum Mechanics

    Before I enter upon the question of the completion of the general theory of relativity, I must take a stand with reference to the most successful physical theory of our period, viz., the statistical quantum theory which, about twenty-five years ago, took on a consistent logical form (Schrödinger, Heisenberg, Dirac, Born). This is the only theory at present which permits a unitary grasp of experiences concerning the quantum character of micro-mechanical events.

    Einstein's concern about nonlocality is that it may violate his principle of relativity.

    This theory, on the one hand, and the theory of relativity on the other, are both considered correct in a certain sense, although their combination has resisted all efforts up to now. This is probably the reason why among contemporary theoretical physicists there exist entirely differing opinions concerning the question as to how the theoretical foundation of th
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