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Comment Re:Sorry, No. (Score 2, Insightful) 799

That Einstein did not believe in quantum mechanics is far fetched. This is the guy who invented the photo electric effect. He was well aware of the quantum nature of the electron orbits. What he doubted was the Kopenhagen interpretation. This (in a few very crude words) says that there is no way to observe the underlying truth and that we should stick to observables only. The Einstein Podolsky Rosen paper takes this logic to an extreme and comes out at the "spooky" interaction at distance. Note that everything stays within the boundaries dictated by the relativity theory in that not all information can be exchanged over the distance instantaneous but that part of the information already needs to have traveled the distance (the other half of the entangled pair),

The beauty is that he did not need to let his belief system dictate the logic of the argument. It might be that at the time his conclusions were wrong as the result he obtained was contrary to the experience he had up till now.

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