Francois Vannucci on Einstein’s two mistakes
(6/25/20)“Einstein is an example of an inventive and free spirit; yet he still kept his biases,” reads Paris Diderot University professor and researcher Francois Vannucci’s article for The Conversation, “Einstein’s Two Mistakes” He adds, “his ‘first mistake’ can be summed up saying: ‘I refuse to believe in a beginning of the universe.’ However, experiments proved him wrong. His verdict on God playing dice means, ‘I refuse to believe in chance.’ Yet quantum mechanics involves obligatory randomness.” Join us for a refutation of (at least some of) the great physicist’s work in this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI.