Google turns up many webpages that allege that Schrödinger had a cat named Milton at the home in Oxford that he was sharing with his legal wife and his longtime mistress in 1935, when he published his famous thought-experiment about the quantum superposition of live cat and dead cat. But the most respectable source that I could find was the caption of his photo from Physics Today's Facebook page: Physics Today - Timeline Photos | Facebook.
I also found this other page, where one of the commenters claims to have seen a PBS documentary that included a photograph of Schrödinger with Milton: Why did Erwin Schrödinger choose a cat? But I could not otherwise verify this information, much less find the documentary or the picture.
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Date: 2020-03-08 02:39 pm (UTC)no subject
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Google turns up many webpages that allege that Schrödinger had a cat named Milton at the home in Oxford that he was sharing with his legal wife and his longtime mistress in 1935, when he published his famous thought-experiment about the quantum superposition of live cat and dead cat. But the most respectable source that I could find was the caption of his photo from Physics Today's Facebook page: Physics Today - Timeline Photos | Facebook.
I also found this other page, where one of the commenters claims to have seen a PBS documentary that included a photograph of Schrödinger with Milton: Why did Erwin Schrödinger choose a cat? But I could not otherwise verify this information, much less find the documentary or the picture.
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Date: 2020-03-09 07:11 am (UTC)What we do know is that Ayn Rand was a cat lover.
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Date: 2020-03-10 02:14 am (UTC)