The Epr Paper and Its Preceding and Succeeding Perspectives

When Einstein’s revolutionary interpretation of Planck’s and other experimental results related to microscopic phenomena came out in the early years of the 20 century, the ideas he put forward were not accepted by the physics community at large due to the fact that he challenged the accepted wave theory. The wave-particle duality of light was nothing less than scientific blasphemy! However, as the subsequent development of quantum mechanics, largely by the Copenhagen camp, involved an indeterminism that to Einstein was inherently unacceptable, he decided to find his answers elsewhere—and co-authored the EPR paper. Here I try to chart the story of that attempt at wiping away the indeterminism in quantum mechanics—after all, mused Einstein, God doesn’t play dice...or does he?