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I had no idea there was physicists that quit the field. Does anyone know any articles or anything on this? Sounds interesting to read what their thoughts were
by 3a2d29 5y ago
I had no idea there was physicists that quit the field. Does anyone know any articles or anything on this? Sounds interesting to read what their thoughts were.
- chillfox 5y agoPeople quit all sorts of things all the time. Why would physic’s be any different?
- jfoutz 5y agoI'm by no means a physics historian. I'm pretty sure quantum physics pissed off Einstein so much he spent the rest of his career trying to refute it. "God does not play dice with the universe". I'm just some jackass on the internet, so I'll leave it to Hawking to talk about emotional attachment to determinism https://www.hawking.org.uk/in-words/lectures/does-god-play-dice https://www.hawking.org.uk/in-words/lectures/does-god-play-d...
- photochemsyn 5y agoSchrodinger of Wave Equation fame said he regretted ever having anything to do with QM, for example. Here's a good short write-up: https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/einstein-schr%C3%B6dinger-and-the-story-you-never-heard-7588341288b9 https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/einstein-schr%C3%B6din...