Einstein on the Completeness of Quantum Theory (John D. Norton)

John D. Norton
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
University of Pittsburgh

• Einstein's Principal Objection to Quantum Theory
• God Does Not Play Dice
• Einstein's Positive Program
• Entanglement
• The EPR Argument
• Separability, Locality and Reality
• Later Formulations
• The Einstein Bohr Debate
• Einstein Loses: The Bell Inequalities
• Einstein in Retrospect
• What you should know

For related material, see my
"Little boxes: A simple implementation of the Greenberger, Horne, and Zeilinger result for spatial degrees of freedom," American Journal of Physics, 79(2)(2011), pp. 182-188.


The Einstein of this chapter is a little removed from the Einstein of popular imagination. That Einstein is the first of the modern physicists of the 20th century. He is the the genius of 1905 who established the reality of atoms, laid out special relativity and E=mc², and made the audacious proposal of the light quantum. This same Einstein went on to conceive a theory of gravity unlike anything seen before and to reawaken the science of cosmology.

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