Albert Einstein was deeply skeptical of what he called
"spooky action at a distance," a term he used to describe quantum entanglement. He believed that quantum mechanics was incomplete and resisted the idea that two entangled particles could instantaneously affect each other across vast distances, seemingly violating the limit set by the speed of light.
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Einsteinās Main Objections
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Local Realism
- Einstein favored the idea that physical properties (such as position and momentum) exist independently of measurement (realism).
- He also believed that information should not travel faster than light (locality).
2.
The EPR Paradox (1935)
- Along with Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen, Einstein formulated the
EPR paradox, which argued that quantum mechanics allows for entangled particles to influence each other instantaneously.
- The paper concluded that quantum mechanics must be incomplete and that "hidden variables" might exist to explain entanglement without violating relativity.
3.
Dislike of Probabilistic Nature
- Einstein famously said,
"God does not play dice with the universe," expressing his discomfort with quantum mechanicsā probabilistic nature.
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Later Developments
- Bellās Theorem (1964): Physicist John Bell showed that any theory preserving local realism would conflict with quantum mechanics. Experiments later confirmed quantum entanglement, supporting "spooky action at a distance."
- Modern Quantum Physics: While Einstein was correct in questioning quantum mechanics' completeness, his skepticism about entanglement has been largely overturned by experimental evidence.
In summary, Einstein rejected "spooky action at a distance" as an indication that quantum mechanics was flawed or incomplete. However, later discoveries validated the phenomenon, proving that entanglement is real, even though it challenges classical physics.
@Marlin Pohlman
Remember, Albert Einstein only had an estimated IQ of 160, not a super genius or anything. Some science "fiction" writers, such as Frank Herbert, with an IQ of 190, according to his son Brian Herbert, probably had a better understanding of physics and metaphysics and their science "fiction" stories weren't always strictly fiction, such as the 6-book Dune story, by Herbert, basically a true story.
Herbert may have ghost written the 6-book Dune story, for another science fiction writer, L. Ron Hubbard, as suggested by the fact that Hubbard, in writing his 10 book, Mission Earth science fiction series, mirrored the 6-book Dune series, in numerous ways. I read Mission Earth, when it came out in the mid 1980s. I noticed that Hubbard was describing people he knew, including himself, in his characters.
What was really strange to me was that Hubbard was describing me in two of his female characters. I never understood the reason why, until I read the 6-book Dune series, decades later. In reading Dune, after being told by a reliable source, that it was a true story, I seemed to be identifying myself and others, in some of the characters in the beginning, being reincarnated in the middle and end of the story.
Though I identified as male in the beginning of Dune, I identified as a female character, near the end of Dune. That involved the reason that Hubbard described me in two of his female characters in Mission Earth. Apparently, Hubbard knew me personally in my last lifetime, just before Pearl Harbour, when I was a British Secret Agent and he was an American Naval Intelligence Officer.
But not only was Hubbard acquainted with me in my last two lifetimes, including this one, but also, my female character, near the end of the 6-book Dune story, was perceived in two different ways by her father, one way before he died, but quite differently, when he was brought back to life as a ghola. In this lifetime, I even sent Hubbard
several letters, which were responded to, except the last one, sent shortly before he passed away.
Since consciousness, sometimes has the capacity to split and merge, it seems plausible that Herbert and Hubbard were parts of the same consciousness and that they both knew that Dune was basically a true story, something the movie makers of Dune, haven't quite figured out yet. Herbert even was a judge on Hubbard's Writers of the Future contest, with both of them passing away in 1986.
I feel that Herbert and Hubbard probably had a significantly better understanding of physics and metaphysics than most physicists, including Einstein. And I've written elsewhere of my impression that another physicist, Stephen Hawking, with his enhanced mind and deformed body, likely lived as one of the Space Guild Pilots of Dune, who obtained their deformed bodies and enhanced minds by their use of Melange.
Dune being a true story, implies that many of us have already in the distant future parts of the Milky Way's Spiral Time Streams, in the distant past, before we migrated to Earth and started reincarnating here. Particle theory is much too incomplete, at best, to allow that as even being possible. We would either need to reject particle atomic theory or combine it somehow with other theories, quantum, string, wave or something.
I may have indicated somewhere, my belief in Milky Way's Spiral Time Streams and corresponding Time Travel. Quantum Entanglement implies that any point in these Spiral strings is connected to all the other points in these Spiral strings, observable in Milky Way's Spiral Arms, which can also be deduced to be the actual structure of atomic and electromagnetic frequencies, within those spiral arms.
In my view, Parallel Realities or Universes, exist at intervals, within these Spiral Time Streams, where planes of conscious beings are flowing outward, from the center of the Milky Way, in this particular cinema, that we as little consciousnesses, flow through. Super conductive frequencies could enable someone to teleport sideways to a parallel reality or time travel perpendicularly forwards or backwards.
I have also suggested elsewhere that the interval for parallel realities, forwards and backwards on Earth's spiral time streams, may be a derivative of 20 years, indicated by the results reported in the Philadelphia Experiment, by Al Bielek, Preston Nichols and others, that one man jumped overboard and landed 20 years in the "future", whereas two men jumped overboard and landed 40 years in the "future".