‘Shut up and calculate’: how Einstein lost the battle to explain quantum reality

Michael Brooks

Max Tegmark

I advocate an extreme "shut-up-and-calculate" approach to physics, where our external physical reality is assumed to be purely mathematical. This brief essay motivates this "it's all just equations" assumption and discusses its implications.

Dipankar Home, Andrew Whitaker

Petar Grujić

We analyze some of Einstein's failures to accomplish tasks which he posed to himself, notably deterministic interpretation of Quantum mechanics and formulation of the Unified theory of physical interactions, putting them into broader ontological and epistemological context. We highlight, on the other hand, a number of his contributions that have been unjustly neglected by the physical community, like the semiclassical quantization principle and the concept of antiparticle. Finally, we mention briefly three issues, which are related to Einstein, but are subject to controversy.

Dipankar Home, Andrew Whitaker

Bastos Filho Jenner Barretto