3 ms·
I'm replying to myself here. I did a little research and discovered that Einstein was aware Bohm's interpretation, and Einstein seemed to think that it missed t
by nessus42 8y ago
I'm replying to myself here. I did a little research and discovered that Einstein was aware Bohm's interpretation, and Einstein seemed to think that it missed the mark. Einstein did die, however, two years before the publication of the Everett Interpretation, and I've seen no evidence that Einstein received any early information on that seminal Interpretation.
It would be very interesting to know how Einstein would have received the Everett Interpretation.
This is what Einstein had to say about Bohm's Interpretation, in a letter that Einstein wrote to Bohm about six months before he died:
"In the last few years several attempts have been made to complete quantum theory as you have also attempted. But it seems to me that we are still quite remote from a satisfactory solution to the problem. I myself have tried to approach this by generalising the law of gravitation. But I must confess that I was not able to find a way to explain the atomistic character of nature. My opinion is that if an objective description through the field as an elementary concept is not possible, than one has to find a possibility to avoid the continuum (together with space and time) altogether. But I have not the slightest idea what kind of elementary concepts could be used in such a theory."
From my reading of this, it seems that Einstein's greatest concern here is that GR and QM had not yet been unified.
There is a sense in which no competent scientist can fully accept either QM or GR, despite their incredible accuracy in making predictions, because we know that they are incompatible with each other, and consequently, both wrong or incomplete in some very important manner.