Quantum Mechanics

The Bohr–Einstein debates were a series of public disputes about quantum mechanics between Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr. Their debates are remembered because of their importance to the philosophy of science.

Quantum physics is considered as one of the most remarkable discoveries of contemporary physics grown during previous century and gradually manifested to the scientific world such as inventions of laser, the transistor, the electron microscope, and semiconductor.

It’s been just over 110 years since Einstein published his groundbreaking papers in 1905 that revolutionized physics as we know it and ushered in the quantum age. Among these papers were his theories on special relativity (not to be confused with general relativity, which he published 10 years later in 1915). His theories on special relativity discussed such strange things as length contraction and time dilation when an observer moved at speeds approaching the speed of light (3 x 108 meters per second, or c).

The Einstein of this chapter is a little removed from the Einstein of popular imagination. That Einstein is the first of the modern physicists of the 20th century.

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Einstein refused to believe in the inherent unpredictability of the world. Is the subatomic world insane, or just subtle?

In the wiki page about unsuccessful investigations of Einstein, there is only one sentence describe his unsuccessful of unifying general relativity with electromagnetism: Einstein spent many ye...

Even geniuses make mistakes.

I recently finished Walter Isaacson’s biography of Albert Einstein. The biography covers not just Einstein’s intellectual achievements, but also his anti-war activism, marital difficulties and celebrity.

One hundred years ago, a patent clerk in Switzerland published a series of scientific papers that would eventually make him so famous that his name and likeness would become registered trademarks. With his tousled hair and moustache as an icon of genius, Albert Einstein's theories on relativity, the photoelectric effect and Brownian motion, all published in 1905, continue to resonate today, say UC Davis scientists.

Quantum mechanics is a physical science dealing with the behaviour of matter and energy on the scale of atoms and subatomic particles / waves.

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