Pauli talks about the edition of the Einstein volume. He is glad about Bohr's positive attitude as regards the issue of "Dialectica" on complementary. He also writes on entropy and observation.
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About a special issue of the journal 'Dialectica' dealing with the concept of complementarity. W. Pauli requests a contribution from N. Bohr.
Sans titrePauli does not accept Caldirola's suggestion to connect experiments of Lattes, Occhialin and Powell with equations developped by Corben and Schwinger and gives two reasons for it.
Sans titrePauli thanks Hulthén for sending the French edition of Lagervist's work on the Lamb shift.
Sans titrePauli agrees with Casimir that quantum electrodynamics have entered a new phase and refers to the recently discovered fact that the magnetic moment of an electron at rest is somewhat larger than Bohr's magneton.
Sans titrePauli refers to some points for a future discussion with Fierz: 1) on the problem of divergencies in quantum electrodynamics 2) on the relation between concepts and sense perception. He also writes on the laws of nature as physical manifestation of archetypes and he refers to Kepler and his polemic with Fludd.
Sans titrePauli asks Jordan to send his cosmological works to Prof. Lichnerowicz at Strasbourg. He writes about Jung's interest in parapsychology. He has a negative opinion about a book by an American psychologist, E White, on the "Unobstructed Universe".
Sans titreEinstein sends his contribution on the subject of complementarity for the periodical Dialectica. Einstein writes about the new progress he made in the extension of the gravitation equation. Alas he was not yet able to obtain a strong and free of any singularities field equation for interesting physical cases. Einstein looks forward to seeing Pauli and his wife in an expected visit. He ends his letter on some remarks on American politics.
Sans titrePauli sends Fierz some critical remarks on an article written by Schrödinger who is not ready to accept the epistemological consequences of quantum mechanics. He also comments on Fierz's statement by an "arbitrary decision of the observer".
Sans titreEinstein discusses the difference between his and Pauli's view on the significance of the psi-function. If this function does not supply a complete description of the state of a single system, one must look for such a complete description to which the real laws of nature must be related.
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