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In article <1992Aug27.173559.12442@galois.mit.edu> tycchow@riesz.mit.edu  
(Timothy Y. Chow) writes:
> 
> If I am not mistaken, Bohr and Einstein (and Einstein in particular) viewed
> themselves as trying to understand the True Nature of things.  Einstein's
> obejctions to quantum theory were motivated primarily by deep-seated
> feelings about what reality is like

Absolutely---and was not this divergence the point at which his
productive scientific career ended? As someone once said, if Einstein
had retired and gone fishing in 1925, it would have made no difference
to theoretical physics. He was crippled by his inability to accept QM
(even tho he was one of its originators!).

The fact that Einstein let his philosphical biases prejudice him
against QM is an excellent example of the perils of the philosophical
way of knowing things.

--
Barry Merriman
UCLA Dept. of Math
UCLA Inst. for Fusion and Plasma Research
barry@math.ucla.edu (Internet; NeXTMail is welcome)