Erwin Schrödinger is a Nobel-winning Austrian physicist, known for his contribution to the Schrödinger cat experiment (also may be known as a paradox). Born on August 12, 1887, in Vienna, Erwin went on to become a noted theoretical physicist and scholar who came up with a groundbreaking wave equation for electron movements. Schrodinger intended his thought experiment as a discussion of the EPR article- named after its authors Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen- in 1935.
In the experiment, which was well thought about, a cat was placed in a sealed box along with a radioactive trial, a Geiger counter (a device measuring radioactivity by detecting and counting ionizing particles and a bottle of poison. If the device detects that the radioactive material is decomposed, it will activate the smashing of the bottle, killing the cat. For as long as the box is shut, the cat is dead and alive, knowing that it can't be neither, because it cant be confirmed which one it is. If the cat survives, it remembers only being alive. The thought experiment illustrates this apparent paradox. Each alternative seemed absurd to Einstein, who was impressed by the ability of the thought experiment to highlight these issues.
Sadly, Schrodinger died 4th January 1961, Vinne, Austria, of tuberculosis, aged 73.
In the experiment, which was well thought about, a cat was placed in a sealed box along with a radioactive trial, a Geiger counter (a device measuring radioactivity by detecting and counting ionizing particles and a bottle of poison. If the device detects that the radioactive material is decomposed, it will activate the smashing of the bottle, killing the cat. For as long as the box is shut, the cat is dead and alive, knowing that it can't be neither, because it cant be confirmed which one it is. If the cat survives, it remembers only being alive. The thought experiment illustrates this apparent paradox. Each alternative seemed absurd to Einstein, who was impressed by the ability of the thought experiment to highlight these issues.
Sadly, Schrodinger died 4th January 1961, Vinne, Austria, of tuberculosis, aged 73.
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