Schrodinger’s Cat and Life

This is Erwin Schrodinger, Nobel-prize-winning architect of the famed equation with his name — along with silhouettes of his famous alive-and-dead cats. Born in Austria on 1887, Erwin’s chronic struggles with tuberculosis had him confined in a sanitorium in the 1920’s: it was during his stay that he developed his famous wave equation. Many conclusions about the field of quantum science he found distasteful. In fact, the famous cat thought experiment was something he developed to ridicule the idea that objects might be in a state of superposition (that’s the cat as alive-and-dead thing) until they are observed. Schrodinger lived in several countries in his lifetime, but eventually settled in Ireland and became a naturalized citizen. He kept an unconventional personal life, with a lifelong marriage alongside a long-term mistress, and he fathered a couple of other children from other lovers besides. He was philosophically inclined, and embraced the Hindu belief system known as Vedanta, which emphasizes a unitary consciousness throughout existence. A quote of his that bridges some of the scientific and philosophical components of his thoughts can be found in his book _What Is Life?_. There he writes “for eternally and always there is only now; the present is the only thing that has no end.”