Beware of New Ideas: Views on the Wave-Particle Duality

Rodney Bartlett

doi:10.59973/ipil.51

Authors

Rodney Bartlett Information Physics Institute, Stanthorpe, 4380, Australia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.59973/ipil.51

Abstract

In an e-mail sent in the year 2000, Josephson offered the admonition: “Beware ye, all those bold of spirit who want to suggest new ideas.” His words apply to his younger self who, in 1962, was “bold of spirit” and “want(ed) to suggest new ideas”. What did he need to beware? Possibly – older scientists with established ways and conservative views … perhaps even his older, settled-into-tradition, self.

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