How the Nazis Split the Foundations of 20^th Century Physics

A fundamental split in the foundations of physics developed in the 1930s, between relativity and quantum mechanics, which has remained unresolved. De Broglie first derived quantum waves in 1924, directly from special relativity, and Einstein approved. But in Germany in 1930s, the Nazis viewed relativity or anything related to Einstein as subversive “Jewish Physics”. I argue that German physicists obscured the relativistic basis for quantum mechanics, in order to avoid dismissal or worse. Early German QM textbooks led to a split in the foundations of physics that has continued to the present. An alternative “quantum relativity” picture could reunify physics, but has never been considered. Such a unified picture may be important both for education and for the future evolution of physics.

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