Dialogue about Quantum Mechanics

Einstein:

I admit that the Heisenberg-Bohr tranquilizer philosophy - or is it a religion? - is concocted well enough to allow the faithful a peaceful sleep for now. They won’t be startled easily. But in 1935 I finally found an excellent antidote to the sleeping sickness: The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen thought experiment.


Bohr:

You are still getting people alarmed with that. Even though I answered your argument years ago in my article.


Einstein:

If I may say so, you didn't understand my objections at all.


Bohr:

Possibly. But it turned out that your thought experiment can be used to decide between your view and ours. Charles Bell found that out in 1964. And when the experiment could finally be realized, you were proven wrong, simply and clearly.

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