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EINSTEIN AS A TRANSITIONAL FIGURE: THE BIRTH OF WAVE MECHANICS 439 by treating Einstein's molecular gas according to the Debye m ...

25 Einstein's Response to the New Dynamics Everyone familiar with modern physics knows that Einstein's attitude regarding quantu ...

EINSTEIN S RESPONSE TO THE NEW DYNAMICS 441 and new. Eugene Wigner, who was in Berlin in 1925, told me that Einstein had at that ...

442 THE QUANTUM THEORY course. Nevertheless, the BKS proposal contains statistical features,* as we have seen. Could Einstein ha ...

EINSTEIN'S RESPONSE TO THE NEW DYNAMICS 443 and spoke in this sense of a "Gespensterfeld"', ghost field [B2], clearly a referenc ...

444 THE QUANTUM THEORY as 1909 Einstein had been the first to stress the need for incorporating a particle- wave duality in the ...

EINSTEIN'S RESPONSE TO THE NEW DYNAMICS 445 Einstein came down to breakfast and expressed his misgivings about the new quantum t ...

446 THE QUANTUM THEORY ment. This delimitation differs incomparably from the restrictions on information inherent in the coarse- ...

EINSTEIN'S RESPONSE TO THE NEW DYNAMICS 447 Bohr's drawing of Einstein's clock-in-the-box experiment [B6]. (Reproduced with the ...

448 THE QUANTUM THEORY where t is the time taken to readjust the pointer and g is the gravitational accel- eration. Thus, tgAmAq ...

EINSTEIN'S RESPONSE TO THE NEW DYNAMICS 449 Not that from then on he desisted from criticizing quantum mechanics. He had recogni ...

450 THE QUANTUM THEORY made a stunning advance, increasing their number of seats in the Reichstag from twelve to one hundred and ...

EINSTEIN S RESPONSE TO THE NEW DYNAMICS 451 to it that Einstein's papers in Berlin were saved and sent to the Quai d'Orsay by Fr ...

452 THE QUANTUM THEORY vectors to the Dirac equation and to generalize the formalism to general relativity. Their studies of sem ...

EINSTEIN'S RESPONSE TO THE NEW DYNAMICS 453 In 1938 Einstein's son Hans Albert came to the United States. In 1926 he had obtaine ...

454 THE QUANTUM THEORY During the years 1933-45 Einstein spoke out less on political issues than he had done before or would do ...

EINSTEIN S RESPONSE TO THE NEW DYNAMICS 455 refers to our ordinary perception.' Bohr's deep concern with the role of language in ...

456 THE QUANTUM THEORY momentum and position operators of a given particle. Therefore quantum mechanics is incomplete. The autho ...

EINSTEIN S RESPONSE TO THE NEW DYNAMICS 457 finishing touches to his 1949 article [B6], and we discussed these matters often at ...

458 THE QUANTUM THEORY El 1. , letter to M. Born, December 4, 1926; The Born-Einstein Letters, p. 90. £12. , Z. Angew. Chemie 40 ...