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Skriven 2012-03-05 14:43:12 av Michiel van der Vlist (2:280/5555)
     Kommentar till en text av Björn Felten (2:203/2)
Ärende: In God We Trust ...
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Hello Björn,

On Monday March 05 2012 01:46, you wrote to me:

 MvdV>> "Der liebe Gott würfelt nicht".

 BF>    That's the part that the world obviously is trying to forget. For
 BF> something like 40 years, that so called genius stalled because of his
 BF> Jewish, religious indoctrination and subsequent refusal to accept the
 BF> Danish "invented", quantum mechanics.

The irony is that his very own theory of photo emission - the one that got him
the Nobel prize - already had the pointers for the theory of quantum mechanics
in it. But Einstein did not see it, it took the guys from Kopenhagen to do
that.

 BF>    One can only speculate about what the scientific world would look
 BF> like today if he hadn't been suffocated by that indoctrination.

Hard to say. That Einstein's religeon prevented him form accpeting quantum
mechenics, does not mean that he would have invented it himself had it been
otherwise. As I see it, quantum mechanics is a lot weirder than the theory of
relativity. If Einstein had not invented  relativity someone else would have.
All the experiments providing the pointer had been done and Maxwell and Lorentz
were very close. The time was ripe for the idea. But quantum mechanic required
a much greater leap of the imigination. I rate Niels Bohr way above Einstein.

 BF>    What if he had staid in Europe (there were a few countries here,
 BF> where jews were allowed to stay and work even during the most dark
 BF> years of those days), and not moved to the fanatically Christian USA?

I doubt it would have made much difference. Environment and upbringing have
great influence on a man, but only when young. After adolescence it is too late
to fully undo indoctrination. For most people anyway. Just have a look at the
reverse example in our own midst. One can trade a US passport for that of
another country, but getting rid of the star and striped coloured glasses seems
to be much harder...

 BF>    Yeah, well, we've been down this "what if" road more times than we
 BF> all care to remember, so let's not go down that path yet again...? :)

Yep.. ;-)


Cheers, Michiel

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