Thursday, July 12, 2012

3. Midterm

Einstein /Bohr debate

In the debate that was between Einstein and Bohr it was about the implications of the quantum theory. The two founders of quantum mechanics are Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr. Einstein had believed that the world was run on the classical physics laws. Instead of being in god’s hand which many people believed. There was an experiment that was the double slit experiment that he had done. This demonstrated that matter and energy can display both waves and particles. The light had passed through some slits, the results were observed on a screen behind the plate. Bohr had pointed out that there was an error of Einstein’s new experiment that he had worked on. They debated for the rest of their lives about this experiment. That is way too long to debate about something if you ask me I could not do that for so many years. There are many people that believed that Bohr was the winner of the debates. I believed that they both had good points in their debates. It is hard to side with either or there are many laws and rules in this world.  Bohr stated that god may play games in the dark, however he can find out what he is doing by shining light on it. I found quotes from both of them that really stood out to me when I had read them. “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new”. This quote is from Albert Einstein this basically meant to me that if you do no try new things out and learn from the mistake you will never know what the mistake was. “An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field”. This is from Nelis Bohr this means that even if you are a smart person you can make some of the worse mistakes.


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