Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Einstein is Always Right in the End

Neils Bohr thought he had bested Albert Einstein in one of the greatest "Physics Pheuds" ever.  In 1930 Einstein posited that Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle wasn't as cut-and-dried as everyone thought.  He thought there was a way around it, but never quite came up with the coup de grace formula.

Turns out, that after all this time, Einstein was correct, but only with the accumulation of quantum mechanics knowledge over the past 80 or so years. 

And of course, Einstein's entire Theory of Relativity was recently rocked by the discovery of neutrinos traveling faster than the speed of light.  Except, they weren't.  Turns out a faulty clock with a weak connector made all the data up.  As The Simpson's Nelson Muntz would say:

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