JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post
On a graze through the journal Nature (still the same Nature as today’s publication, the journal at this point being already 12 years old) looking for an article by the great W. Stanley Jevons on the aurora borealis (and the fluctuations of magnets), I bumped into the following short notice:
And this, from one of the most-cited articles in the history of the Physical Review:
“If, without in any way disturbing a system, we can predict with certainty (i.e., with probability equal to unity) the value of a physical quantity, then there exists an element of reality corresponding to that quantity.”–Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen,”Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete?” Physical Review, volume 47, May 15, 1935, page 777. Full text via the American Physical Society.
