Albert Einstein
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Einstein's Greatest Mistake
Einstein and Bohr first met in 1920, but they do not see eye to eye on the new science. In 1930 Einstein describes an experiment that uses an ultra-precise clock to help record the energy of an atom. A device so brilliant that contrary to what his opponents say, it can measure the atom without impacting the result. He seems to show that subatomic certainty is possible after all. At first Bohr finds fault - then he realizes that Einstein's method fails with its own principle. But at the end of his serious efforts to prove as much as could be proved, physicists are left divided over whether quantum theory has a future or not.
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