The theory of quantum mechanics has transformed daily life since being proposed a century ago, yet how it works remains a ...

When a German physicist returned from a health retreat 100 years ago, his ideas sparked a debate about reality, and gave rise ...

Quantum mechanics is one of the most successful theories in science — and makes much of modern life possible. Technologies ...

It’s the weirdest thing: quantum theory works incredibly well in practice. It powers devices ranging from MRI machines to lasers and the very computer you’re reading this on. But even after 100 years, ...

Erwin Schrödinger was the only son of well-educated parents. His father owned an oil cloth factory and was an amateur painter and botanist. Erwin was taught at home, by tutors and parents, until ...

Schrödinger settled in Ireland at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Dublin in 1940, where he would remain for 17 years. After his retirement in 1955, Schrödinger returned to Vienna.

The Half-Life of Physicists In 1947 Erwin Schrödinger boasted of a big new result that would beat his sometime collaborator Albert Einstein. They were both wrong. By Peter Woit May 1, 2015 3:16 ...

This is the premise of Erwin Schrödinger’s 1935 thought experiment to describe quantum states, and now, researchers have managed to create a fat (which is to say, massive) Schrödinger cat ...

But no one can know the feline’s fate until they look. This is the basic story of Schrödinger’s Cat, a thought experiment physicist Erwin Schrödinger first proposed 80 years ago today.