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> Has this proof been contested by some parts of the scientist working on the field? Here's a story I find interesting. Einstein got his nobel prize for disco
by m1el 11y ago
> Has this proof been contested by some parts of the scientist working on the field?
Here's a story I find interesting.
Einstein got his nobel prize for discovering the law of photoelectric effect [1]. This discovery influenced the development of quantum mechanics quite a lot. I'd say that this discovery alone is enough for the theory of QM to emerge.
However, Einstein did not like the "probabilistic" nature of QM, "God doesn't play dice with the world."[2], and he argued against it. Albert Einstein along with Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen have formulated a paradox[3] which was resolved many years later by Bell's Theorem and corresponding experiments[4].
So yes, there were scientists arguing against the probabilistic nature of QM.
> Does anyone know of someone explaining that proof in a comprehensible way?
"Comprehensible" explanation in this case mostly depends on the reader. The wiki[4] gives a pretty good explanation of the Bell's Theorem and experiments.
[1]: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1921/ http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/192...
[2]: https://books.google.com.vn/books?id=QXCyjj6T5ZUC https://books.google.com.vn/books?id=QXCyjj6T5ZUC
[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR_paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR_paradox
[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%27s_theorem#Practical_experiments_testing_Bell.27s_theorem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%27s_theorem#Practical_exp...
- bsaul 11y agoThanks for taking the time. I've read the wikipedia article and think i got the argument better : from what i got, you can't have a "classical" effect underlying QM, because it would mean faster than light transmission of information. And yet, experimentally, Bell's experiment has been done, and it is working the way it is predicted by QM (the famous "spooky action at a distance"). Would that be correct ?
- mirimir 11y agoYes, comprehension = getting the math. Comprehension <> classical visualization. That's what I eventually accepted, anyway.