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 is a seemingly paradoxical thought experiment devised by Erwin Schrödinger that attempts to illustrate the incompleteness of an early interpretation of quantum mechanics when ...

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

Troubled times After an unhappy three years in Oxford starting in 1933, Erwin Schrödinger returned to Austria and is shown here in 1937 with a car belonging to German physicist Max von Laue. (Courtesy ...

The opportunity to correct the work of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Erwin Schrödinger—yes, that Schrödinger, of quantum cat fame—comes once in a lifetime, so when my colleagues and I discovered he ...