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God Doesn't Play Dice












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Today we are going to talk about a huge controversy on Science during 1920s...


 Albert Einstein is one of the greatest and certainly best known physicists. If you ask anyone to name a physicist the most common answer you will receive is “Einstein”. Einstein is also famous for his quotations. Among the many Einstein’s quotations one is particularly popular among the general public: “God does not play dice”. But what did Einstein mean by this?

The quotation says, “Quantum theory yields much, but it hardly brings us close to the Old One’s secrets. I, in any case, am convinced He does not play dice with the universe.” It was addressed by Einstein to Max Born (one of the fathers of Quantum Mechanics) in a letter that he wrote to Born in 1926.

The “Old one” and “He” Einstein refers to is God. The fame of this quotation stems from two sources: 1) Einstein’s disagreement with the fundamental concept of Quantum Mechanics that at the quantum (i.e. atomic) level nature and the universe are totally random, namely events happen by mere chance; 2) Einstein’s views about religion and God.

So Who was Max Born

Max Born is widely credited, along with Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger, Niels Bohr, and Max Planck, as one of the founders of quantum mechanics. Quantum mechanics, also known as quantum physics, is the branch of physics that studies matter at the very small level, from the atomic to sub-atomic levels. Although quantum mechanics is known for its spooky and strange behavior, it can also be considered one of the most exciting fields of physics today. According to Helix magazine, nearly all the Nobel Prizes in Physics awarded over the past one hundred years have some relation to quantum physics.

The Actual Max Born's theory is very complicated which I will explain in the next post

Till then I would like to ask you all a question based on Astrophysics

Name one particle without an anti particle???

(Answers will be published tomorrow)
Till then Bye

Your
Universal Physics Expert

Signing Off
Khushil

Comments

  1. Anonymous10 May 2019 at 23:22

    Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.

    The best thing that supports Max is the whole theory of probability and conditional probability. The Math of no. of possible occurrences of outcomes of rolling a die; the 1/6 association to each face; is simply stupendous scientific establishment of randomness

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  2. Khushil Shah11 May 2019 at 11:49

    Would you like to suggest another topic that I can post about today ?!

    Also What is your name ?!

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    1. Anonymous12 May 2019 at 20:13

      Hey Mate....!!!!

      It's really interesting to xplore physics wid u...

      Cn we look into Particle Wave Duality...???

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    2. Khushil Shah13 May 2019 at 07:57

      Sure
      I will post it tomorrow as today's topic is Higgs boson
      Tomorrow's topic will be particle wave duality

      Delete

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