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In his article about his discussion with Einstein and his research into quantum physics, what Bohr really does is outline the future of physics and how it will be researched in the coming century, he appears to be the first to grasp that science will no longer be about observing phenomena and then finding the most logical explanation, but rather about making the most rational assumptions possible about things which exist purely on an impossibly small scale. Until the early twentieth century, almost all science was conducted first from simple observations made by anyone in their daily life, which were then scrutinized by experimentation and mathematics. Newton, for instance, certainly used math to derive his formula for gravity and the elliptical orbit of the planets, however the basic principle was formed by watching objects fall out of the sky or looking through a telescope at planets orbiting a star. Bohr has realized that those days are passed. He makes numerous references to the double slit experiment and how it apparently defies explanation. He understands that photons are what compose all ambient light around us, and as such to study a photon, you need to observe it, but observing the photon requires light, and //the photon is light. //It is clear he understands this contradiction when he says of the experiment, “In fact, the introduction of any further piece of apparatus, like a mirror, in the way of a particle might imply new interference effects essentially influencing the predictions as regards the results to be eventually recorded.” The act of taking data, changes the data you are taking, this still gives any normal person a headache today, but in the early 1900’s it was completely unheard of. Bohr also draws his ideas from Heisenberg’s research into uncertainty, and the equally complex notion of his, the idea that it is literally impossible to know the location and momentum of an atom at the same time, because any attempt to measure it, will change the end result. Next he goes on to mention Einstein’s research with semi-reflecting mirrors and how a single photon can apparently travel in both directions at the same time. In this experiment there are no apparatus collecting data, so there can be no interference, and yet the photons defiantly obey multiple contradictory paths of motion at the same time. Bohr modestly states, “[T]here is no other alternative than to admit that, in this field of experience, we are dealing with individual phenomena and that our possibilities of handling the measuring instruments allow us only to make a choice between the different complementary types of phenomena we want to study.“ He is cautious here, claiming that it may perhaps be an event that he lacks the right tools to explain, but yet later he says, “[T]he logical comprehension of hitherto unsuspected fundamental regularities governing atomic phenomena has demanded the recognition that no sharp separation can be made between an independent behavior of the objects and their interaction with the measuring instruments which define the reference frame.” He is clearly aware of the downright weirdness of what he is suggesting, that somehow simple laws of relative motion do not exist in quantum reality, but he is aware, (in a way even Einstein is not) of the fact that the simple logic that has governed all science up to this point is no more. Finally he discussed his work with Einstein about the variability of time, based on clocks measuring different amounts time between releases of amounts of energy and the effects this would have on its mass. This is just one more example of his preparedness to accept radical realities if they can be proven scientifically. Einstein’s notion that time is a variable does not appear to scare Bohr, he explains the complex process of how the clock’s reading can be proven, and as such he has accepted that time, the one untouchable constant, is in fact a variable in itself. Bohr was clearly a great scientist not because he was smarter than Einstein or any of the others, but because he saw the greater picture. After centuries of acceptance (and proof) the known laws of physics were going to be broken. Bohr acknowledges that, “Utterances of this kind would naturally in many minds evoke the' impression of an underlying mysticism foreign to the spirit of science,” but he knows the truth and he is prepared to rewrite all of historical science in order to make it clear.