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7 months ago in Quantum Mechanics By Meera
Did schrödinger actually misunderstand his own equation?
I've heard that Schrödinger never really accepted quantum mechanics and that his famous cat experiment was him trying to prove it was absurd. Did he just not get his own theory?
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By Anusha Answered 1 month ago
He got it. He just hated the dominant interpretation. Schrödinger formulated wave mechanics he understood the math intimately. His cat wasn't a mistake; it was a critique. He was pointing out that the Copenhagen interpretation, taken literally, implies a cat can be both dead and alive until observed. He thought that revealed a flaw in the interpretation, not the equation. And far from erring on entanglement, he actually named it and recognized its weirdness decades before experiments confirmed it. He wasn't confused. He was unconvinced.
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