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 ...

In 1935, quantum physicist Erwin Schrödinger suggested a controversial thought experiment to highlight the paradoxical nature of time in quantum mechanics. 1 In the experiment, he supposed that ...

Schrödinger’s Cat: Unraveling the Quantum Mystery. Erwin Schrödinger’s famous thought experiment remains a cornerstone of discussions on quantum mechanics.

In the famous thought experiment known as Schrödinger’s cat—first proposed by physicist Erwin Schrödinger in 1929—a hypothetical cat is locked in a box with poison, ...

First proposed in 1935 by the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger, "Schrödinger's cat" was designed to highlight the physicist's concerns with one interpretation of quantum mechanics—the then ...