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A lost Schrödinger manuscript reveals a twist in quantum physics

35 points by ibobev 2 days ago | 12 comments

I just want to know what happened to the cat, eventually. Like for real – beyond the (academic) (un)certainties.

artnap 19 hours ago

Schrödinger's fix to Whittaker's photon argument was to let the hidden variable take any value between zero and one, instead of just two. It's funny that such a small change was enough to rebuild the quantum probabilities.

euroderf 17 minutes ago

Can this shed light on determinism v free will ?

yonisto 36 minutes ago

I was hoping it established that the cat is ginger

rolph 11 hours ago

https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/api/object/o:167065/download [PDF]

readthenotes1 2 hours ago

A good example of a monster whose professional life benefits the world.

Worth the cost? I'd say not, but I'm generally an optimist.

abbadadda 2 hours ago

Why was Schrödinger a monster in his personal life?

dabiged 2 hours ago

The guy was a paedophile and justified it because he was so intelligent he deserved to sleep with children.

danbruc 29 minutes ago

I had never heard that and just had a look at the Wikipedia article and those claims seem to be primarily based on one biography. Other research based on his journals disputes the image portrayed in the Moore biography.

rramadass 23 hours ago

Great article on an interesting topic.

The article mentions the great Physicist, Prof. S.N.Bose's take in a lecture delivered to the Indian Science Congress in 1944. It is titled "The Classical Determinism and The Quantum Theory".

The corresponding pdf can be found at Prof.S.N.Bose archive under Section 6 "Documents" titled "Presidential address at the Indian Science Congress, Delhi,1944 [Current Science, Vol XIII, No. 1]" - https://www.bose.res.in/Prof.S.N.Bose-Archive/

Prof. S.N.Bose is the Physics great after whom "Bosons", "Bose-Einstein Statistics", "Bose-Einstein Condensate" and even "Higgs Boson" are named - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyendra_Nath_Bose

srean 22 hours ago

I find SN Bose's derivation of quantized distribution of energy levels so much more elegant than Plank's which reads more like a desperate hack to force a predetermined answer.

rramadass 22 hours ago

Wikipedia has a telling quote from the Physicist, Prof. Partha Ghose;

Bose's work stood at the transition between the 'old quantum theory' of Planck, Bohr and Einstein and the new quantum mechanics of Schrödinger, Heisenberg, Born, Dirac and others.

I have always felt that Prof.S.N.Bose never got full credit and acclaim for his achievements maybe because there were so many other greats at that time though Einstein recognized his originality.

ziiinq 25 minutes ago

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