Despite his parents’ secularism, the nine-year-old Albert discovered and embraced Judaism with some considerable passion, and for a time he was a dutiful, observant Jew. Hermann and Pauline Einstein were nonobservant Ashkenazi Jews.
What did Einstein mean by it? And how did Einstein conceive of God? And in some circumstances we might get the other.Įinstein was having none of it, and his insistence that God does not play dice with the Universe has echoed down the decades, as familiar and yet as elusive in its meaning as E = mc 2. Whereas physics before the quantum had always been about doing this and getting that, the new quantum mechanics appeared to say that when we do this, we get that only with a certain probability. The heart of the new theory of quantum mechanics, Born had argued, beats randomly and uncertainly, as though suffering from arrhythmia.
‘I am at all events convinced that He does not play dice.’Įinstein was responding to a letter from the German physicist Max Born. ‘The theory produces a good deal but hardly brings us closer to the secret of the Old One,’ wrote Albert Einstein in December 1926. Albert Einstein and Nils Bohr attend the Solway conference in 1920 in Brussels, Belgium.
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