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Epistemology and Probability - Bohr, Heisenberg, Schroedinger, and the Nature of Quantum-Theoretical Thinking (Hardcover, 2010 ed.)
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Epistemology and Probability - Bohr, Heisenberg, Schroedinger, and the Nature of Quantum-Theoretical Thinking (Hardcover, 2010 ed.)
Series: Fundamental Theories of Physics, 161
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This book offers an exploration of the relationships between
epistemology and probability in the work of Niels Bohr, Werner
Heisenberg, and Erwin Schro- ] dinger, and in quantum mechanics and
in modern physics as a whole. It also considers the implications of
these relationships and of quantum theory itself for our
understanding of the nature of human thinking and knowledge in
general, or the ''epistemological lesson of quantum mechanics, ''
as Bohr liked 1 to say. These implications are radical and
controversial. While they have been seen as scientifically
productive and intellectually liberating to some, Bohr and
Heisenberg among them, they have been troublesome to many others,
such as Schro] dinger and, most prominently, Albert Einstein.
Einstein famously refused to believe that God would resort to
playing dice or rather to playing with nature in the way quantum
mechanics appeared to suggest, which is indeed quite different from
playing dice. According to his later (sometime around 1953) remark,
a lesser known or commented upon but arguably more important one:
''That the Lord should play dice], all right; but that He should
gamble according to definite rules i. e., according to the rules of
quantum mechanics, rather than 2 by merely throwing dice], that is
beyond me. '' Although Einstein's invocation of God is taken
literally sometimes, he was not talking about God but about the way
nature works. Bohr's reply on an earlier occasion to Einstein's
question 1 Cf."
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