Quantum theory: Niels Bohr (Introduction)

by BBella , Saturday, July 13, 2013, 18:18 (4129 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID [re Niels Bohr]: A history of a founding father:
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> http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/351277/description/When_the_atom_went_quantu... 
> QUOTE: "The primary payoff of his engagement with quantum physics for his wider philosophy was the discovery that multiple truths come ... in complementary pairs," Heilbron said.
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> Bohr's thoughts on truth have recently been illuminated by newly available correspondence with his fiancée, Margrethe Nørlund, during his work on the atom model. Heilbron cited one letter in which Bohr discusses the different sorts of truths expressed in sermons, great works of literature, and science. The truths of one's personal sympathies, the universal human truths of literature and scientific truths all differ in kind, but are all important, Bohr wrote. "It's something I feel very strongly about, I can almost call it my religion, that I think that everything that is of value is true.""
> -I would have to agree with Bohr here and add to his list - the "truth" of experience. For the experiencer, no proof by an outsider (scientist, witness, etc) of the experience is needed to make it "truth" and to know what they experienced was/is true. And if it was true, in that it actually did happen to them, whether in mind or body, would it then not be considered "truth?" Or, consider the possibility something can be true for one and not "truth" for all? ->Whatever "truth" may be, we should not assume that science has a monopoly on it.-Agreed.