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Does anyone know if Schrödinger actually had a cat?

Date: 2020-03-08 02:39 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] dewline
I don't know. Which doesn't mean that no one does.

Date: 2020-03-08 08:26 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] wcg
https://www.quora.com/Did-Erwin-Schr%C3%B6dinger-ever-have-a-cat-How-did-it-die

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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)
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From: [personal profile] conuly
He can't have, or he would've known that locking it in a box is a very bad idea.

What we do know is that Ayn Rand was a cat lover.

Date: 2020-03-10 02:14 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] james_davis_nicoll
Yes and no.

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