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September 01, 2015

Essay: Why Schrödinger Hated His Equation

the particle interpretation of quantum mechanics
Schrödinger as the inventor of the foundation of quantum mechanics in the form of the Schrödinger wave equation never accepted the statistical particle Copenhagen interpretation of his invention.


I don't like it (quantum mechanics) and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with it. (Schrödinger)

The verbal interpretation, on the other hand, i.e. the metaphysics of quantum physics, is on far less solid ground. In fact, in more than forty years physicists have not been able to provide a clear metaphysical model.  (Schrödinger)

The soothing philosophy - or religion? - of Heisenberg-Bohr is so clevely concocted that for the present it offers the believers a soft resting pillow from which they are not easliy chased away. Let us therefore let them rest. (Einstein)



                                                       Schrödinger with his cat.

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