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Einstein Defiant: Genius versus Genius in the Quantum Revolution
EINSTEIN DEFIANT
Genius versus Genius in the Quantum Revolution
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Einstein Defiant: Genius versus Genius in the Quantum Revolution
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Einstein Defiant: Genius versus Genius in the Quantum Revolution
EINSTEIN DEFIANT
Genius versus Genius in the Quantum Revolution
Edmund Blair Bolles
Joseph Henry Press
Washington, DC
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Einstein Defiant: Genius versus Genius in the Quantum Revolution
Joseph Henry Press
500 Fifth Street, NW Washington, DC 20001
The Joseph Henry Press, an imprint of the National Academies Press, was created with the goal of making books on science, technology, and health more widely available to professionals and the public. Joseph Henry was one of the founders of the National Academy of Sciences and a leader in early American science.
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Bolles, Edmund Blair, 1942-
Einstein defiant : genius versus genius in the quantum revolution / by Edmund Blair Bolles.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-309-08998-0 (hbk.)
1. Quantum theory—History—20th century. 2. Physics—Europe—History—20th century. 3. Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955. 4. Bohr, Niels Henrik David, 1885-1962. I. Title.
QC173.98.B65 2004
530.12′09—dc22
2003023735
Copyright 2004 by Edmund Blair Bolles. All rights reserved.
Printed in the United States of America.
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Einstein Defiant: Genius versus Genius in the Quantum Revolution
To Kelso Walker and the rest of the crew, volunteers all.
Tanzania XII: U.S. Peace Corps, 1966-1968
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Einstein Defiant: Genius versus Genius in the Quantum Revolution
Bohr asked me to sit down and soon started to pace furiously around the oblong table in the center of the room. He then asked me if I could note down a few sentences as they emerged during his pacing. Bohr never had a full sentence ready. He would often dwell on one word, coax it, implore it, to find the continuation. This could go on for several minutes. At that moment the word was ‘Einstein’. There was Bohr, almost running around the table and repeating: ‘Einstein … Einstein …’. After a little while he walked to the window, gazed out, repeating every now and then: ‘Einstein … Einstein …’.
—Abraham Pais, Niels Bohr’s Times
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Einstein Defiant: Genius versus Genius in the Quantum Revolution
Contents
A RADICAL FACT RESISTED
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The Opposite of an Intriguer
3
2
Not German at All
12
3
I Never Fully Understood It
26
4
Independence and Inner Freedom
35
5
A Mercy of Fate
51
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Picturesque Phrases
57
7
Scientific Dada
68
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Such a Devil of a Fellow
76
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Intuition and Inspiration
86
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Bold, Not to Say Reckless
94
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A Completely New Lesson
102
12
Slaves to Time and Space
110
13
Where All Weaker Imaginations Wither
116
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A Triumph of Einstein Over Bohr
127
A RADICAL THEORY CREATED
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Something Deeply Hidden
137
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Completely Solved
146
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Exciting and Exacting Times
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Einstein Defiant: Genius versus Genius in the Quantum Revolution
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Intellectual Drunkenness
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The Observant Executrix
195
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It Might Look Crazy
204
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Taking Nothing Solemnly
211
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How Much More Gratifying
218
A RADICAL UNDERSTANDING DEFIED
23
Sorcerer’s Multiplication
229
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Adding Two Nonsenses
236
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Admiration and Suspicion
241
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An Unrelenting Fanatic
248
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The Secret of the Old One
251
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Indeterminacy
256
29
A Very Pleasant Talk
264
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The Dream of His Life
276
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The Saddest Chapter
285
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A Reality Independent of Man
293
33
A Certain Unreasonableness
299
Afterword
305
Bibliography
309
Sources
317
Index
337
