A lost Schrödinger manuscript reveals a twist in quantum physics

euroderf a few seconds ago | parent | next [-]

Can this shed light on determinism v free will ?

artnap 18 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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.

▲

yonisto 20 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I was hoping it established that the cat is ginger

▲

rolph 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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

▲

readthenotes1 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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 an hour ago | parent [-]

Why was Schrödinger a monster in his personal life?

▲

dabiged an hour ago | parent [-]

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

	▲	danbruc 12 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		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 a day ago | parent | prev [-]

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 a day ago | parent [-]

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 21 hours ago \| parent [-]
		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.