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Originally Posted by Evan
Papageno, I have one nit to pick. You said "Einstein did not like Quantum Mechanics, but he never questioned that it worked nor did he support a rejection in the lack of a better theory."
Einstein didn't just dislike quantum mechanics, he did not believe it to be a true description of the world at all. He is famous for having said "God does not play dice with the universe". He never could wrap his head around the idea and vigorously opposed the notion of "spooky action at a distance". He essentially wasted the rest of his life trying to disprove QM.
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He was trying to find a
better theory.
He did not like the interpretation of QM that leads to "spooky action at a distance" or probabilities, but his reasons were more philosophical in nature rather than physical.
He did not consider QM wrong as a theory, because he accepted that the predictions match the experimental results.
And he did not go back to classical mechanics, because this does not fit the obsevations.
As much as he did not like QM, he accepted it as a scientific theory, at the same working to replace it with something better.