Khalili reviews Quantum Drama, a new book by physicist and science writer Jim Baggott and the late historian of science John ...

For decades, the story went that Bohr’s anti-realism triumphed over Einstein’s quest for a deeper reality. Physicists were told to "shut up and calculate" and metaphysical debates were dismissed as ...

During the early 1900’s, [Einstein] was virtually at war with quantum theory. Its unofficial leader, [Niels Bohr], was constantly rebutting Einstein’s elaborate thought experiments aimed at ...

Bohr was unperturbed by the implications, trusting in the equations. But Einstein would not accept a style of physics that, as he saw it, abandoned its duty to describe the real world.

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You can read more about this topic here: “Bohr, Einstein and Bell: what the 2022 Nobel Prize for Physics tells us about quantum mechanics” This article forms part of Physics World‘s contribution to ...

Alongside Max Planck's work on quanta of heat, and Niels Bohr's later work on quanta of matter, Einstein's work anchors the most shocking idea in 20th-century physics: we live in a quantum ...

He also wrote Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality. He has also written and reviewed for various publications including the Guardian, Independent, Times ...