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The Quantum Underpinnings of Religious Currents |
| Section: NATURAL SCIENCE / SCIENCE AND RELIGION: UNEASY BEDFELLOWS? |
| Author: G. Carroll Strait |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2001 |
| Size: 3,306 Words, 21,075 Characters |
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When Albert Einstein said "God does not play dice" and Niels Bohr replied "Einstein, stop telling God what to do," neither was speaking of a God of purpose, values, love, or authority. And they certainly were not speaking of a God involved with the unfolding of human, biological, or even geological history. Nonetheless, in this interchange, one man stood closer to the God of such traits and the other closer to a radically different kind of god.
Both were Nobel Prize--winning physicists: Einstein won the 1921 prize for his 1905 paper explaining the photoelectric effect, a phenomenon in which some materials exposed to ultraviolet light eject electrons in ways unexplainable by classical physics. Bohr, eight years younger than Einstein, won the 1922 prize for his work in 1911--13. In that...
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...ity, Oxford University Press, New York, 1991.
------, 'Subtle Is the Lord ...': The Science and Life of Albert Einstein, Oxford University Press, New York, 1982.
Fred Alan Wolf, Taking the Quantum Leap: The New Physics for Non-Scientists, Harper & Row, San Francisco, 1981. Gary Zukav, The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics, William Morrow & Co., New York, 1979.
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