Einstein did not want to relent on what was for him the key issue: that there was an objective reality independent of whoever interacts with whatever. Bohr would not relent on the validity of the profoundly new way in which the real was conceptualized by the new theory. Ultimately, Einstein conceded that the theory was a giant step forward in our understanding of the world, but he remained convinced that things could not be as strange as it proposed—that “behind” it there must be a further, more reasonable explanation.
