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Originally Posted by GUILLE Einstein wanted to solve the problem between General relativity and Quantum theory (actually, he was father of both theories) and with string theory he would eventually do this. |
Einstein did not want to solve the problem between general relativity and quantum mechanics. In fact, Einstein dislike quantum mechanics so much that after his contributions in the 1930's he never went back to do any more investigations in QM although he did carry on lifelong arguments with Niels Bohr and he also started the EPR paradox, which is meant to discredit QM. Bohr is one of the founders for the old quantum theory applied to hydrogen atoms. The father of the old quantum theory is Max Planck and he did had doubts about his discovery. Einstein was responsible for the quantization of light as photons in a published paper on the photoelectric effects circa 1905, the same year for the paper on special relativity.
Later in life, Einstein tried to unify the gravitational force and EM force but he died in 1955 without any success and even did not give any hints of what future generations of physicists must do for the quantization of gravity.