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 Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 11:54 pm
If you have any questions pertaining to the basic idea of this guild (Schrödinger & his cat) please feel free to ask them in the thread and I will do my best to address them.
Who Is Schrödinger?
Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger was an Austrian theoretical physicist who achieved fame for his contributions to quantum mechanics, especially the Schrödinger equation, for which he received the Nobel Prize in 1933. In 1935, after extensive correspondence with personal friend Albert Einstein, he proposed the Schrödinger's cat thought experiment.
WTF is the Schrödinger Equation?
In physics, especially quantum mechanics, the Schrödinger equation is an equation that describes how the quantum state of a physical system changes in time. It is as central to quantum mechanics as Newton's laws are to classical mechanics.
What the hell does his cat have to do with anything?
Schrödinger's cat is a thought experiment, often described as a paradox, devised by Schrödinger in 1935. It illustrates what he saw as the problem of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics applied to everyday objects. The thought experiment presents a cat that might be alive or dead, depending on an earlier random event. In the course of developing this experiment, he coined the term Verschränkung—literally, entanglement.
Again... The cat?
To illustrate the putative incompleteness of quantum mechanics, Schrödinger applied quantum mechanics to a living entity that may or may not be conscious. In Schrödinger’s original thought experiment, he describes how one could, in principle, transform a superposition inside an atom to a large-scale superposition of a live and dead cat by coupling cat and atom with the help of a "diabolical mechanism". He proposed a scenario with a cat in a sealed box, wherein the cat's life or death was dependent on the state of a subatomic particle. According to Schrödinger, the Copenhagen interpretation implies that the cat remains both alive and dead until the box is opened. Simplified, Schrödinger put a cat in a box with some poison and sealed it. His theory was that the cat was neither alive nor dead until the box was opened.
WTF is a paradox?!
A paradox is a statement or group of statements that leads to a contradiction or a situation which defies intuition; or, it can be an apparent contradiction that actually expresses a non-dual truth. Typically, either the statements in question do not really imply the contradiction, the puzzling result is not really a contradiction, or the premises themselves are not all really true or cannot all be true together. The word paradox is often used interchangeably with contradiction. Often, mistakenly, it is used to describe situations that are ironic.
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Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 12:58 am
The only Schrodinger I know of is a Nazi werewolf on Hellsing XD
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Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 1:06 am
Could we please start adding the umlaut to Schrödinger's name? sad
Sorry, but it bugs me when no one uses it. xd
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Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 1:18 am
 The only reason I don't use it is 'cause I'm too lazy to copy and paste
and I don't know how to get it otherwise. xD
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Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 7:11 pm
XWraith_LordX Could we please start adding the umlaut to Schrödinger's name? sad Sorry, but it bugs me when no one uses it. xd how exactly do you do that? i would so do it if i knew how. crying
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Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 7:20 pm
Xeffi XWraith_LordX Could we please start adding the umlaut to Schrödinger's name? sad Sorry, but it bugs me when no one uses it. xd how exactly do you do that? i would so do it if i knew how. crying There are three easy ways to do that. 1.: -Go to: Start -> Run -And type: charmap -then Enter -search for the ö -copy and paste it. 2.: -hold [ALT]-Key -Type: 148 -release [ALT]-Key 3.: -Get a german Keyboard -and set your keyboard profile to "german" I prefer to type oe instead of ö ^^
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Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 7:38 pm
Tsurugi no Okami Xeffi XWraith_LordX Could we please start adding the umlaut to Schrödinger's name? sad Sorry, but it bugs me when no one uses it. xd how exactly do you do that? i would so do it if i knew how. crying There are three easy ways to do that. 1.: -Go to: Start -> Run -And type: charmap -then Enter -search for the ö -copy and paste it. 2.: -hold [ALT]-Key -Type: 148 -release [ALT]-Key 3.: -Get a german Keyboard -and set your keyboard profile to "german" I prefer to type oe instead of ö ^^ gracias. >_> i think imma go with numbah two...
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Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 11:08 am
Or, you could go to Wikipedia.de and copy and paste an umalut when you find it, which you will, in about two seconds of viewing the page. xd
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