Einstein’s Dice and Schrodinger’s Cat: How Two Great Minds Battled Quantum Randomness to Create a Unified Theory of Physics - Paul Halpern Audiobook
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Albert Einstein and Erwin Schrödinger were friends and comrades-in-arms against what they considered the most preposterous aspects of quantum physics: its indeterminacy. Einstein famously quipped that God does not play dice with the universe, and Schrödinger is equally well known for his thought experiment about the cat in the box who ends up “spread out” in a probabilistic state, neither wholly alive nor wholly dead. Both of these famous images arose from these two men’s dissatisfaction with quantum weirdness and with their assertion that underneath it all, there must be some essentially deterministic world. Even though it was Einstein’s own theories that made quantum mechanics possible, both he and Schrödinger could not bear the idea that the universe was, at its most fundamental level, random.
As the Second World War raged, both men struggled to produce a theory that would describe in full the universe’s ultimate design, first as collaborators, then as competitors. They both ultimately failed in their search for a Grand Unified Theory—not only because quantum mechanics is true, but because Einstein and Schrödinger were also missing a key component: of the four forces we recognize today (gravity, electromagnetism, the weak force, and the strong force), only gravity and electromagnetism were known at the time.
Despite their failures, though, much of modern physics remains focused on the search for a Grand Unified Theory. As Halpern explains, the recent discovery of the Higgs Boson makes the Standard Model—the closest thing we have to a unified theory—nearly complete. And while Einstein and Schrödinger tried and failed to explain everything in the cosmos through pure geometry, the development of string theory has, in its own quantum way, brought this idea back into vogue. As in so many things, even when he was wrong, Einstein couldn’t help but be right.
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This post has 6 comments with rating of 5/5
December 3rd, 2023
One somehow never expects a theoretical physicist to have the kind of dry wit that Erwin Schrodinger managed. On the other hand, Paul Dirac gave one of the best definitions of poetry since Aristotle.
This sounds well worth the listen.
December 3rd, 2023
YA Mojo! Thank you!
December 3rd, 2023
Thanks M!
December 3rd, 2023
Albert Einstein got really mad about quantum theory and the randomness of it. He said God does not play dice with the universe. He was proven wrong on this. I There is a God that made the rules of the universe. He is the ultimate gambler.
December 4th, 2023
If you consider the variable ‘time’ in Schrodeinger’s famous cat in the box paradox, you can say with almost 100% certainty that the cat is, in fact, dead…
Thank you Mojo, excellent read, however the ending is predictable. ;)
April 13th, 2024
seed please
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