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Is there an objective reality ? Is there an objective truth ? Intellectuals used to beleive in objective reality. Intellectuals used to believe in one objective truth. This all changed when Neils Bohr supposedly defeated Albert Einstein in a series of quantum physics debates in Copenhagen in 1927 and 1930. Neils Bohr stated emphatically that quantum physics called for a "radical revision of our attitude toward the problem of physical reality."

Most physicists today are disciples of Bohr and Heisenberg. They are indeterminists and subjectivists. They believe in Bohrs complementarity and Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. They believe everything is random and based on statistical probabilities. They believe that there is no reality unless and until it is observed. They believe there is no reality independant of the observer. They are the liberals of modern physics and they control most of the physics departments in our educational institutions. They are known collectively as the "Copenhagen School" of quantum physics.


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A minority of physicists today are intellectual proteges of Albert Einstein. Einstein and his followers are determinists and objectivists. They don't believe in Bohrs complementarity. They don't believe in Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. Instead, they believe in objective reality independant of the observer. They believe there is only one reality. One truth. This group of physicists includes Einstein, Schrodinger, Planck, and Carver Mead.



The academic orthodoxy in theoretical physics for the last seventy years is that Bohr was right and Einstein was wrong. This false orthodoxy was pushed in the textbooks for political and philosophical purposes. The truth was suppressed. Any new scientific evidence that undermined Bohr and strengthened Einsteins interpretation was swept under the rug. It was not printed in the textbooks. The promoters of subjectivity and uncertainty were 100 % certain that they were right.


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Einstein said, "I reject the basic idea of contemporary statistical quantum theory." Schrodinger attacked Bohr's complementarity as "intellectually wicked." Murray Gell-Mann accused Bohr of "brainwashing" the majority of physicists. (Murray Gell-Mann was a nobel prize winner in physics.)

What was "intellectually wicked" about Bohrs lack of belief in an objective physical reality ? Part of it was that he did not want this belief confined to the feild of physics. He wanted to spread this virulent strain of ideology to dominate all fields of human inquiry and knowledge, not just science. "Bohr regarded complementarity as providing an 'epistemological lesson' for the field of human learning, and beyond physics his own discussions were principally in biology, psychology, and social anthropology." In 1939 , Bohr preached cultural subjectivity (that all cultures are equal) and moral subjectivity (that no moral decision is inferior to any other moral decision). For instance, a cannibalistic culture is not inferior to a culture that does not practice cannibalism. Bohr said, "each culture represents a harmonious balance of traditional conventions by means of which latent potentialities of human life can unfold themselves in a way which reveals to us new aspects of its unlimited richness and variety."

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Selleri says that the Copenhagen paradigm of Bohr and Heisenberg contains a "falsification." Selleri goes on to say that there is an objective reality in spite of the falsification put forth so effectively by the Copenhagen clan.

Einstein may have lost the debate in the short term, but Einstein will be proven the victor in the long run. Carver Mead proved that Einstein was right and that it was Bohr who was wrong about quantum physics. Mead proved this in his book Collective Electrodynamics, which was published in 2001.

Rich Karlgaard states in Forbes on March 18, 2002, in a review of Carver Meads book,

"Einstein had objected to Werner Heisenbergs uncertainty principle and, in general, to the statistics-based, ultimately random foundation of life Bohr was promoting. 'God does not play dice' with the universe. Einstein protested. Carver Mead said that Bohrs signature contribution to physics, complementarity, is crap. There is only one reality. The supposed conflicts of Bohrs day were a result of limited instrumentation.

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But instead of being patient, Bohr forced the issue and declared all problems solved. He silenced two generations of physicists. Carver loathes Bohrs legacy. He thinks Bohr perpetuated one of those monstrous intellectual frauds that every now and then slip through the asylum gates and confuse people for decades. Think Freud and Marx."

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Carver Mead lists ten experimental discoveries which vindicate Einstein and debunk Bohrs interpretation of quantum physics: 1933-Persistent current in superconducting ring, 1933-Expulsion of magnetic field by superconductor, 1954-Maser, 1960-Atomic laser, 1961-Quantized flux in superconducting ring, 1962-semiconductor laser, 1964-superconducting quantum interference device, 1980-integer quantum hall effect, 1996-Bose-Einstein condensate.