What if einstein was alive today
Einstein did not like the direction in which Quantum Mechanics was going nor did he approve of how it changed his intuitive perception of reality.
Although Einstein himself challenged others like Newton's classical work and modified Newton's original ideologies, one could envision the minds of these great titans in congress debating the vital virtues of their theories, but shortly thereafter, an effective collaboration of pragmatic sensible progression of simplicity, continuity, and logical reason would soon prevail in symphonic harmony.
But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory yields a lot, but it hardly brings us any closer to the secret of the Old One.
In any case I am convinced that He doesn't play dice" — Albert Einstein. This bold universal and egregious acceptance of our proclaimed sense of knowledge of fundamental physical laws using the Higgs Boson as its basis was boastfully flawed from its inception and continues to persist out of desperation. Since when do we derive a fundamental theory in physics by proclaiming the discovery of a particle as the sufficient substitution to the power unleashed using basic mathematical laws?
Sure we may describe an object or event using mathematics, but it is the foundation of mathematics that inevitably dictates the principles of the physical laws we must interpret.
How and why did this paradigm change? Are we so benevolent in our composition of theory and assumptive discovery that we ignore reasonably we have disclosed nothing from overlooking the obvious?
Understanding illicit explanations regarding how, not what! Our theoretical laws in physics should be motivated by our understandings of mathematical laws within the confines of the physical realm in which we exist. Describing the attributes of any predicted observation says nothing concerning how that object of observation operates or functions.
Should we conclude our investigations on flight by suggesting birds fly because they have wings? At labs like CERN, the world's largest particle physics center in Switzerland, researchers collaborate on a single atom-smashing experiment.
Publishing the results takes years. My God, what an idea! Perhaps the best examples are the five scientific papers Einstein wrote in his "miracle year" of These "thought experiments" were pages of calculations signed and submitted to the prestigious journal Annalen der Physik by a virtual unknown. There were no footnotes or citations.
IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. Politics Covid U. News World Opinion Business. Share this —. For the first half of the last century, physics yielded not only deep insights into nature--which resonated with the disorienting work of creative visionaries like Picasso, Joyce and Freud--but also history-jolting technologies like the atomic bomb, nuclear power, radar, lasers, transistors and all the gadgets that make up the computer and communications industries.
Physics mattered. Over the past few decades, many physicists have gotten bogged down pursuing a goal that obsessed Einstein in his latter years: a theory that fuses quantum physics and general relativity, which are as incompatible, conceptually and mathematically, as plaid and polka dots.
Seekers of this "theory of everything" have wandered into fantasy realms of higher dimensions with little or no empirical connection to our reality. Over the past few decades, biology has displaced physics as the scientific enterprise with the most intellectual, practical and economic clout. Of all modern biologists, Francis Crick who originally trained as a physicist probably came closest to Einstein in terms of scientific achievement.
He went on to show how the double helix mediates the genetic code that serves as the blueprint for all of life. Just as Einstein vainly sought a unified theory of physics, so Crick in his final decades tried to crack the riddle of consciousness, the hardest unsolved problem in science. But neither Crick nor any other modern biologist has approached Einstein's extra-scientific reputation.
Einstein took advantage of his fame to speak out on nuclear weapons, nuclear power, militarism and other vital issues through lectures, essays, interviews, petitions and letters to world leaders. When he spoke, people listened. After Israel's first president, the chemist Chaim Weizmann, died in , the Israeli cabinet asked Einstein if he would consider becoming the country's president.
Einstein politely declined--perhaps to the relief of the Israeli officials, given his commitment to pacifism and a global government. While awaiting Einstein's answer, David Ben-Gurion, the prime minister, reportedly asked an aide, "What are we going to do if he accepts? It is hard to imagine any modern scientist, physicist or biologist, being lionized in this manner.
One reason may be that science as a whole has lost its moral sheen. The public is warier than ever of the downside of scientific advances, whether nuclear energy or genetic engineering. Moreover, as modern science has become increasingly institutionalized, it has started to resemble a guild that values self-promotion above truth and the common good.
Einstein also possessed a moral quality that set him apart even in his own time. According to Robert Oppenheimer, the dark angel of nuclear physics, Einstein exuded "a wonderful purity at once childlike and profoundly stubborn.
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