Einstein the Determinist

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(After one glass of whiskey I've decided to go back to 3.2 beer. Screw next weekend.)

The interview with Einstein was absolutely fascinating. I even got to ask him a few questions about stuff which has not yet been resolved by modern physics. Einstein gave me hints to the answers with the caveat that I had to promise never to reveal either the hints or the source. I agreed.

Eventually the discussion got around to why Einstein did not recommend Heaven. Before I reveal the interview I need to make it clear that, contrary to modern Christian propaganda, Einstein was not a 'believer.' It is true that Einstein once said that, 'God does not play dice.' That much is true. But Einstein was using the term, 'God,' metaphorically. Einstein really meant something like, 'Mother Nature.' His intent on that occasion was to express his disagreement with the relatively new science of Quantum Mechanics, which suggested that, at the atomic level, Uncertainty Ruled.

You see, Einstein was at bottom a Determinist and could not abide the notion that Nature was essentially unpredictable.