>>8199895Nobody was talking about any supernatural god. Niels Bohr was an atheist and Einstein disavowed religion and supernatural beings. Einstein famously remarked “God does not play dice” and Bohr replied “Einstein, stop telling God what to do”. Einstein was skeptical that Quantum Mechanics was the correct formulation of physics and was criticizing Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle and the Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. At the time, Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle appeared to be incompatible with Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity. Einstein viewed Quantum Mechanics as being less secure in its mathematical foundations than Relativity. Einstein did not reject Quantum Mechanics, rather he felt that there must be some as yet undiscovered version of Quantum Mechanics that would prove compatible with Relativity. Physics is wrestling with this very problem today and we still don’t know which theory should be modified, but all attempts to fix Quantum Theory seem to break it instead. Nobody, not Bohr, Heisenberg, Einstein, et cetera, liked the philosophical implications of Quantum Mechanics, but it seemed to be correct in spite of anybody’s preferences or difficulties. All alternative theories failed in some way. It is important to understand that there were viable alternatives to the Copenhagen Interpretation, for example the de Broglie–Bohm theory, that were rejected on philosophical grounds, i.e. the principal of Occam's razor, as introducing unnecessary theoretical elements. Bohr meant that the consensus of the physics community had grown to accept Quantum Mechanics and in particular the Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. Bohr was criticizing Einstein’s position by reminding him that empirical results take precedence over theoretical considerations.
