Happy Birthday to Schrödinger’s Cat In the 80 years since Erwin Schrödinger first outlined a quantum mechanics thought experiment involving a cat, the feline’s popularity has only grown ...

In 1935, Austrian-born physicist Erwin Schrödinger described a thought experiment that magnified a glaring problem at the heart of quantum mechanics. To this day, the problem remains, summed up ...

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 ...

Schrödinger argued that if quantum rules applied in the macroscopic world, a cat stuck inside a closed box could be both alive and dead at the same time – at least until you open the box.

Peter Woit reviews “Einstein’s Dice and Schrödinger’s Cat,” by Paul Halpern. In 1947 Erwin Schrödinger boasted of a big new result that would beat his sometime collaborator Albert Einstein.

Who came up with Schrödinger's cat? The Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger, who helped found the discipline of quantum mechanics, first conceived of his feline conundrum in 1935 as a ...

Created by Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger in 1935, it looks at a theory of quantum mechanics known as the Copenhagen interpretation. According to the Copenhagen interpretation, ...

Physicists have put an object in two simultaneous vibrating states, emulating the cat that is both dead and alive in Erwin Schrödinger’s celebrated thought experiment 1. The cat’s unenviable ...