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Einstein's Unfinished Revolution
Smolin's 2019 argument for a realist and relational interpretation of quantum mechanics — and for finishing the work Einstein began of understanding reality as something that exists independently of observation.
Einstein's Unfinished Revolution is Smolin's 2019 book arguing that quantum mechanics, despite a century of success, remains fundamentally incomplete. The argument is that the standard interpretations of quantum theory — Copenhagen and its descendants — abandon the realist commitment that Einstein insisted physics must preserve. Einstein's famous question 'Does the moon exist when no one is looking?' was not a philosophical pose; it was a demand that physics describe a world that exists independently of observation. Smolin argues that finishing Einstein's revolution requires a realist interpretation of quantum mechanics, combined with a relational understanding of space and time, and grounded in the reality of time as the fundamental feature of physical existence. The book builds directly on the arguments developed in Time Reborn and extends them into the specific domain of quantum theory.
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Quantum mechanics in its standard form treats the wave function as a complete description of physical systems. The wave function evolves deterministically