Scott,
I'm tired of the discussion too, so I'll just say that the debate about Mach
and whether he was a "doctrinaire nut" is the sort of inclusive dispute
about whether scholars can differ. Einstein, however, with his rejection of
quantum indeterminism on philosophical grounds, was in no posi
In a message dated 4/28/01 11:39:14 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
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> Scott was right, and I was wrong, about the date of Einstein's Brownian
> motion paper (1905). Of course this pushes back the date at which it was
> still reasonable to be skeptical of the atomic hypoth
