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2015/01/27(Tuesday)
Title Academic Personality
Writer Yuichi Uda

A few days ago, I saw an introduction of EPR experiment for general people on TV.
I agree that this experiment is very important and very interesting.
However, differently from the inventor of the experiment, when I first knew the experiment, I did not wonder if the result of it would be.
Before knowing the result of this experiment, I strongly thought that Bohr would be right and Einstein would be wrong.
I thought so because I thought that the quantum mechanics is exquisite as an academic person.
I supposed that he never makes a mistake.

When I was a student, I was very much impressed with the description that a wave function of two particles(i = 1, 2) is not ψ(x, y, z; i) but ψ(x1, y1, z1; x2, y2, z2) in a textbook.
I understood that this grammar was proved valid by being applied to the problem of hydrogen atom and the two-body scattering problem in the textbook.

By evaluating how a physical theory is exquisite as an academic person, we can prejudge the correctness of it before doing all experiments.