Dialogue about Quantum Mechanics

Bohr:

But Mr Einstein, you have to admit...


Einstein:

No, Mr Bohr. I will happily admit that your atomic model is evidence of a unique sensitivity. But I beg your pardon: The way you, Born and Heisenberg have interpreted quantum mechanics – there you have overshot the mark by far.


Bohr:

I've overshot the mark? That's what the colleagues have said about you for twenty years, when you stuck with your claim, against all opposition, that light is a particle.


Einstein:

A wave AND a particle.


Bohr:

Exactly! No one could understand that. And now, finally, we can interpret the wave-particle duality, everyone is happy...

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