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Newsletter Nr. 283
Amsterdam, June 30th, 2009


SPOOKY PHYSICS: EINSTEIN vs. BOHR, PART I: QUANTUM WEIRDNESS - Andrea Diem-Lane

What is truly real? And how do we know? These twin questions, sometimes related 
in philosophical jargon to ontology and epistemology, are of central importance 
in understanding the dramatic implications of quantum theory. Indeed, one could 
argue that the reason quantum theory is so baffling to understand is because it 
upends our deepest and most cherished ideas about what is real and what is not. 
Moreover, quantum theory calls into question the very process of how we know things.

This book is a brief introduction to the famous Einstein-Bohr debate over the implications 
of quantum theory with a special focus on the philosophical ramifications of Heisenberg's 
uncertainty principle. We are fortunate that there exists a fairly extensive record of the 
conversations between these two eminent thinkers. Indeed, it isn't hyperbolic to call the 
Einstein-Bohr conflict one of the greatest intellectual debates of modern times, nay of 
any time period. 

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