Einstein's The Einstein-Bohr Debate

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In my opinion the Einstein-Bohr debate had no winners, but if I had to choose I would slightly pick Bohr over Einstein the reason being is because EInstein wanted to show that uncertainty could be overcomed by the light experiment. The light experiment demonstrated "that matter and energy can display characteristics of both waves and particles. Einstein's argument is that it would not happen if light was just “made of just particles” as stated in the Quantum theory. However, his experiment did not fully counter the theory. It is not possible to determine the precision of the light. The impossibility reinforced the theory's indeterminacy. The experiment helped Bohr's case since it showed how Einstein’s experiment was a

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