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The story that Einstein could not keep up with quantum mechanics is almost exactly backwards: his philosophical objections were correct and should have been taken far more seriously.

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physics Fundamental physics: unification, relativity and quantum mechanics, and whether string theory is still the candidate.

quantum mechanics The theory itself and the arguments about what it means -- measurement, collapse, and whether nature is locally causal.

What Sean Carroll actually said

  1. Sean Carroll Theoretical physicist at Johns Hopkins University
    I think that that story about the latter part is completely wrong, almost 180 degrees wrong. I think that Einstein understood quantum mechanics as well as anyone, at least up through the 1930s. I think that his philosophical objections to it are correct. He should actually have been taken much more seriously about that.

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