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If Einstein were alive he surely would've updated his theory to account with quantum theory.
Originally posted by StarBreather
Quantum physics (sort of):
Faster than light has already been observed in quantum tunneling of photons.
Also, the way entangled atoms communicate across distances is faster-than -light.
Atoms have a probability wave. They have a probability of being elsewhere.
So, if there was a kind of field that could shape the probability wave of large objects, the objects would tunnel through space.
Originally posted by Gazrok
If Einstein were alive he surely would've updated his theory to account with quantum theory.
I doubt it. Einstein hated quantum theory, despite many of his ideas serving as it's foundation... In fact, this inability and unwillingness to agree with it, was one reason his later ideas were nowhere near his earlier discoveries.... Still though, one should never forget his place as one of THE greatest thinkers of our age, and indeed, all time.
Originally posted by sardion2000
Originally posted by Gazrok
If Einstein were alive he surely would've updated his theory to account with quantum theory.
I doubt it. Einstein hated quantum theory, despite many of his ideas serving as it's foundation... In fact, this inability and unwillingness to agree with it, was one reason his later ideas were nowhere near his earlier discoveries.... Still though, one should never forget his place as one of THE greatest thinkers of our age, and indeed, all time.
Didn't he say this about QM? "God doesn't play dice with the universe, He has a great plan that is not random" or somthing like that?
Originally posted by Amorymeltzer
That's always how I've heard it, The_Final. Einstein had big issues with QM. In truth, it's not random, we just don't understand the jump from probability to event.
Then again, he invented the cosmological constant, then threw it out. We all make mistakes, he made three.
In a smiliar vein, there's an old adage: "Random number generation is too important to be left up to chance."
Contrary to what one might expect, general relativity a mass-energy for empty space produces a repulsive force instead of gravitational attraction. If a volume of gas expands or contracts, the mass density changes, producing a positive pressure that, in the simplest case, follows the Ideal Gas Law (p = nRT/v). However if a volume of mass-containing vacuum expands or contracts, the mass-energy density remains constant, and the pressure in this case is negative. The gravitational effect of this negative pressure overwhelms gravitational attraction of the mass and results in a net repulsive force. That force grows linearly with distance, becoming very strong at large distances and balancing the tendency of model universes to collapse. Einstein's introduction of WL thus made general relativity compatible with a steady-state universe
Posted by The_Final
"God not only plays dice, but sometimes throws them where they cannot be" -- Hawking
Originally posted by Rren
Posted by The_Final
"God not only plays dice, but sometimes throws them where they cannot be" -- Hawking
I thought Hawking's quote was :"God not only plays dice, but sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
I believe Einstein's "problem" with quantum mechanics was that QM had as much or more philosophy in it as it did real science(in his time especially).