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To: TexasGator

“Albert Einstein may be most famous for his mass-energy equivalence formula E = mc2, but his work also laid down the foundation for modern quantum mechanics.

His analysis of the “spookiness” of quantum mechanics opened up a whole range of applications including quantum teleportation and quantum cryptography, but he wasn’t completely convinced by the theory of quantum mechanics – and that story is as fascinating as the theory he attempted to nail down...”

Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2014-06-einstein-quantum-mechanics-hed-today.html#jCp


33 posted on 06/03/2018 1:53:23 PM PDT by Pelham ("Truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.")
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To: Pelham

“, but he wasn’t completely convinced by the theory of quantum mechanics”

Not of gravity waves.

“Together with a young collaborator, I arrived at the interesting result that gravitational waves do not exist, though they had been assumed a certainty to the first approximation,” he wrote in a letter to his friend Max Born.

Einstein submitted his change of heart in a paper to the Physical Review Letters titled “Do gravitational waves exist?”


36 posted on 06/03/2018 2:00:41 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1)
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