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Originally Posted by AntonioLao 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. |
Good history class, althugh when I said that Einsteins was the father of quantum mechanics, I was obviously talking about the photoelectric effect which is actaully mentioned by Greene (he and his talk is suposed to be the center of the thread).
I knew that Einstein was completely against (it is mentioned in many other threads of the forum) the quantum theory.
Now, I have never get to know what Einstein was trying with his research in unifying EM and gravity: was he trying to quantize gravity or to geometrize EM??