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The crisis of the quantum theory ”The hypothesis of light quanta...is not able to throw light on the nature of radiation." Bohr, Nobel lecture (1922) ”A general description of phenomena, in which the laws of the conservation of energy and momentum retain in detail their validity in their classical formulation, cannot be carried through... the conservation of energy, as defined by means of classical conceptions, seems at once to be excluded." Bohr (1923)
The crisis of the quantum theory ”We abandon any attempt at a casual connexion between the transition in distant atoms, and especially a direct application of the principles of conservation of energy and momentum, so characteristic of classical theories... Not only conservation of energy... but also conservation of momentum [reduce to] a statistical law." Bohr, Kramers, and Slater (1924) In 1925 counter (coincidence) experiments (Bothe and Geiger) and photographs from Wilson’s chamber (Compton and Simon) confirmed the validity of the conservation of energy and momentum in individual interactions. ”There is nothing else to do than to give our revolutionary efforts as honorable funeral as possible” (Bohr, 1925)
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- Page 52 and 53: Wojciech (Adalbert) Rubinowicz (188
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The crisis of the quantum theory<br />
”We abandon any attempt at a casual connexion between the<br />
transition in distant atoms, and especially a direct application of<br />
the principles of conservation of energy and momentum, so<br />
characteristic of classical theories... Not only conservation of<br />
energy... but also conservation of momentum [reduce to]<br />
a statistical law."<br />
Bohr, Kramers, and Slater (1924)<br />
In 1925 counter (coincidence) experiments (Bothe and Geiger)<br />
and photographs from Wilson’s chamber (Compton and Simon)<br />
confirmed the validity of the conservation of energy and<br />
momentum in individual interactions.<br />
”There is nothing else to do than to give our revolutionary efforts as honorable<br />
funeral as possible” (Bohr, 1925)
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