Playing For The Upper Hand

Playing for the Upper Hand"I shall never believe," Albert Einstein once said, "that God plays dice with the world." It was necessary to say this because all the evidence of modern physics points the other way. The world behaves as if God does play dice with it. Relativity, quantum theory, the Heisenberg principle--all tore apart Newton's model of an orderly world with causes leading to uniform effects. Physicists, to live with disorder and uncertainty, had to turn to probabil...