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Old 02-November-2007, 10:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Cougar View Post
I don't know, but Murray Gell-Mann said, "Neils Bohr brainwashed a whole generation of physicists into thinking that the job was done fifty years ago."
Yes, I read that the young generation was a bit too quick to accept Bohr's arguments against Einstein's objections.

Today the situation is different, because there is a whole lot of experimental results to rely on.
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