I think you've got it wrong. Einstein effectively wasted his old age in a misdirected search for the theory of everything precisely because he rejected the messy realities of the quantum world, where all you can predict are statistical expectations. Quantum electrodynamics isn't actually completely incomprehensible, but it is certainly full of counter-intuitive features.
I read in sci.electronics.design that snipped-for-privacy@ieee.org wrote (in ) about 'Albert Einstein', on Sun, 6 Feb 2005:
It is, if you really understand it. (;-)
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"Probability and Statistics" is by far the most neglected subject in our infants, primary and secondary schools and universities. Six and seven-year olds are capable of grasping the essentials.
It is but another relatively simple branch away from arithmetic into Mathematics in general.
Yet it embraces ALL the clues to the Secrets of our Universe.
It can be assumed Einstein's statistical education suffered in his youth. If only Sir Ronald Fisher's head and his could have been brought together in Einstein's later life who knows what might have transpired.
As it was, Fisher, these days a little heard of genius, devoted his mathematical efforts to the more mundane subjects of medicine, disease, the weather, agriculture and food production, and genetics.
In his spare time he enjoyed himself, in his quiet way, by tearing to shreds the 'old-wive's tales' of traditional statisticians and gamblers.
In the meantime, the mysteries of the Universe remain unsolved. They never will be. Only an imaginary non-existent God knows the answers.
Actually, Shockley may have been technically correct about racial differences, just not politically correct in his method of expression.
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I read in sci.electronics.design that Peter O. Brackett wrote (in ) about 'Albert Einstein', on Sun, 6 Feb 2005:
.... might not be true in another universe;
.... is true irrespective of where you are.
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I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
Oh dear. This is simply irrelevant, and does a major disservice to the dude. It don't look like you really understand the issues involved. Just saying, its "statistical" doesn't bring out what the fundamental problem
*is*.
Suppose we knew *exactly* the position and momentum of a particle at time t0. QM says the new position and momentum cannot be known exactly. This means cause and effect has *failed*. This is *key*. It says that the particle could be in a new state for *no* reason whatsoever. This is what is hard to deal with. That things can happen with no cause. That is, there is no way to determine *why* a particle is in one position rather then another.
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Tsk! Tsk! You think I care ?:-) Although, the way things have been going, I might qualify for Haarvaahd ;-)
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I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
Schottky did a lot of the work on semiconductors but he was a flaming racist and left some nasty ideas behind.
Edison made a practical electric light but he had a recifier tube in his hand and missed the point. If he hadn't electronics would have been several years ahead.
Remember what they told us in driver's ed. You can be right and you can be dead-right! Shockley *was* a jerk, but that didn't mean he was all wrong either.
Of course in IL the _Rules_of_the_Road_ said that if someone took your right-of-way, let them have it! (the '!' was an editorial comment)
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