Erwin Schrödinger was the only son of well-educated parents. His father owned an oil cloth factory and was an amateur painter and botanist. Erwin was taught at home, by tutors and parents, until he ...

Austrian physicist Erwin Schrodinger is being honored today with a Google Doodle. Schrodinger is most famous for his eponymous equation on quantum wave mechanics, for which he earned the Nobel Prize ...

You may have heard of Schrodinger’s cat — not exactly your garden-variety, run-of-the-mill feline. Even Erwin Schrodinger, the animal’s inventor, called the creature “ridiculous.” ...

A cat is in a sealed box. It is both alive and dead, at least until you open the lid. Inside the sealed chamber also sits a vial of poison. This vial could be triggered to break by a tiny amount of ...

Quantum mechanics often has difficulty breaking through to the general public, which is where the importance of "Schrödinger's Cat" lies. The thought experiment captured the general imagination, with ...

Back in 1935 Erwin Schrodinger killed a hypothesis kitty. He said that if you put a cat in a box with a jar of poison and close the lid that we cannot tell whether it is dead or alive until we open ...

Devised in 1935 by the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger, this thought experiment was designed to shine a spotlight on the difficulty with interpreting quantum theory. Quantum theory is very ...

In 1935, Erwin Schrodinger designed a thought experiment in which a feline trapped in a box could be said to be simultaneously alive and dead until it was observed as being one or the other (to be ...