[Vision2020] Why Nick's eyes are brown

[Phil Nisbet]

I have to admit to the list that my last two posts on the subject of Quantum 
Mechanics were made in a more than average fit of pique; however, the 
allegation and statement made by Dr Gier were close to the limit.

The debate centered on Nick's statement that Einstein did not believe in 
Quantum Mechanics.  His statement was utterly false.  He then suggested that 
he was planning on submitting the ideas generated to one of his relatives 
and to a couple of his friends, suggesting that this would be a peer review.

First, we have no idea what Nick submitted and have no names of who what was 
submitted to.  Second, from Nick's response, we know that the question 
generating this 'peer' review is not what Nick makes a statement about.

What I have said is that Einstein was critical to and a founder of Quantum 
Theory.  I have further stated that unlike the statement made by Dr Gier, 
Heisenberg was not 'the' creator of Quantum Mechanics, but only one of many 
who contributed to its creation.

I have also posted the statements by Albert Einstein showing that he fully 
understood that quantum mechanics was a workable mathematical model that 
adequately explained observed phenomena, but that he thought that another 
more fully 'real' explanation might be devised.  That is significantly 
different than stating that he did not believe in Quantum Mechanics.

My second posting deals with the same type of ambush that Nick has done to 
me.  If I send an assortment of Nick's articles around to some of my friends 
for 'peer' review, do not tell Nick what I have sent and to whom and then 
state that their learned opinion is that the Work of Dr Gier was not worthy 
of use as confetti, I would be just as deluded as Nick is in the smear he 
just posted on me.

What Nick did was not a peer review, it is a hatchet job and he knows it.

Phil Nisbet

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