Einstein accepts quantum mechanics

What if Einstein, instead of attempting to refute quantum mechanics, focused primarily on it instead of trying to create a Unified Field Theory, succeeded in creating some theories one decade before they would have been in OTL, and also openly accepting that the universe was expanding? How would this affect the course of modern physics?
 

Perkeo

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Not much difference

Einstein is just one physicist among many who did his best work at a relatively young age and kind of stagnated afterwards. Preventing him from wasting so much time trying to disprove quantum mechanics may reduce that phenomenom, but it is far from granted that Einstein ever again accomplishes anything that noone else can.
 
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Perkeo

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We would have the EPR paper and Bell's Theorem, so belief in hidden variable explanations might still be widespread -

What makes you think the hidden variable explanation is false? Just look at this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohm_mechanics

Hidden variables could end up like OTL dark matter and aether wind: A mystery whose solution will be the ultimate test to the theory.

we'd have the same tech, but we 'd be pretty philosophically ignorant!

We ARE pretty philosophically ignorant. All that we know is that we don't know many things that we thought we knew.
 
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