A Cosmic Conundrum by Lawrence M. Krauss and Michael S. Turner A new incarnation of Einstein's cosmological constant may point the way beyond general relativity
I should also point out that Einstein was a proponent of new theories and ideas and that my statement that he "dismissed" was probably not the best choice of words allthough he was unenthusiastic to QM and never warmed up to it and because of that research in the field was minimal.
According to that article, there is a stark irony to this because much of Einsteins previuosly unexplainable or untestable theories are being supported by modern QM research.
Thanks. I'm not suprised.
I quit reading Sci Am several years ago because their editorials took a significant left turn. And because some of the articles look like stuff I wrote when I had to pull an all-nighter in college because I was too lazy to do the work.
The truth of the matter is that not much research could be done in QM for many years because it was so new and technology hadn't reached a point where interesting things good be done. Lasers for example, don't appear until 1960 or so.
Einstein had accepted QM in it's modern form by the mid 1930's with reservations. But he is one of the founders. It's a micharacterization to say he dismissed it because he was actively engaged in it through the 1920's and 1930's through the matrix and wave approaches.
Heisenberg's opinion was more damning. He wrote to Pauli that,
"The more I think of the physical part of the Schrödinger theory, the more detestable I find it. What Schrödinger writes about visualization makes scarcely any sense, in other words I think it is sh##. The greatest result of his theory is the calculation of matrix elements. "