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Introduction to Volume 15 of The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein. The Berlin Years: Writings and Correspondence June 1925 - May 1927 by Buchwald, Diana Kormos; Illy, József; Kox, A. J.; Lehmkuhl, Dennis; Rosenkranz, Ze'ev; James, Jennifer Nollar; Duncan, Anthony; Giovanelli, Marco; Janssen, Michel; Kennefick, Daniel J.; Unna, Issachar; de Araújo, Emily; Hirschmann, Rudy; Lifshitz, Nurit; Wolff, Barbara is a scholarly article available to read on EtoBox.

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This volume covers one of the most thrilling two-year periods in twentieth-century physics, as matrix mechanics - developed chiefly by W. Heisenberg, M. Born, and P. Jordan - and wave mechanics - developed by E. Schr\"odinger - supplanted the earlier quantum theory. The almost one hundred writings by Einstein, of which a third have never been published, and the more than thirteen hundred letters show Einstein's immense productivity and hectic pace of life. Einstein quickly grasps the conceptual peculiarities involved in the new quantum mechanics, such as the difference between Schr\"odinger's wave function and a field defined in spacetime, or the emerging statistical interpretation of both matrix and wave mechanics. Inspired by correspondence with G. Y. Rainich, he investigates with Jakob Grommer the problem of motion in general relativity, hoping for a hint at a new avenue to unified field theory. Einstein falls victim to scientific fraud when, in a collaboration with E. Rupp, he becomes convinced that the latter's experiments, aimed at deciding whether excited atoms emit light instantaneously (in quanta) or in a finite time (in waves), confirm a wave-theoretic explanation. While

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Buchwald, Diana Kormos; Illy, József; Kox, A. J.; Lehmkuhl, Dennis; Rosenkranz, Ze'ev; James, Jennifer Nollar; Duncan, Anthony; Giovanelli, Marco; Janssen, Michel; Kennefick, Daniel J.; Unna, Issachar; de Araújo, Emily; Hirschmann, Rudy; Lifshitz, Nurit; Wolff, Barbara

Published

2018

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EN