A man famous for boxing a Cat
Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger
12th August 1887 - 4th January 1961
Austrian/Irish Theoretical Physicist in the field of Quantum Mechanics
1933 Nobel Prize for Physics
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Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger was an Austrian - Irish 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, he proposed the Schrödinger's cat thought experiment.
The Paradox of Schrödinger's Cat.
Schrodinger asked us to imagine a cat in a box. Completely at random - in Schrodinger's version, when a nucleus of a radioactive isotope decays - poisonous gas is released into the box that kills the cat. We cannot see inside, and we cannot know if the gas has been released. We do not if the cat, at any specific moment, is alive or dead. In the quantum world,
the cat is both alive and dead simultaneously - but only while we can't see it. As soon as we remove the lid of the box and observe the cat, the superposition of probabilities collapses into a single reality, and the cat is found to alive
or dead.
"Nirvana is a state of pure blissful knowledge... It has nothing to do with the individual. The ego or its separation is an illusion. Indeed in a certain sense two "I"'s are identical namely when one disregards all special contents — their Karma. The goal of man is to preserve his Karma and to develop it further... when man dies his Karma lives and creates for itself another carrier."
"No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The "I" is chained to ancestry by many factors ... This is not mere allegory, but an eternal memory."
"Consciousness is never experienced in the plural, only in the singular. Not only has none of us ever experienced more than one consciousness, but there is also no trace of circumstantial evidence of this ever happening anywhere in the world. If I say that there cannot be more than one consciousness in the same mind, this seems a blunt tautology — we are quite unable to imagine the contrary..."
"Again, the mystics of many centuries, independently, yet in perfect harmony with each other (somewhat like the particles in an ideal gas) have described, each of them, the unique experience of his or her life in terms that can be condensed in the phrase: DEUS FACTUS SUM (I have become God)."
"Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears."
"To Western ideology, the thought has remained a stranger... in spite of those true lovers who, as they look into each other's eyes, become aware that their thought and their joy are numerically one, not merely similar or identical..."
"Thus you can throw yourself flat on the ground, stretched out upon Mother Earth, with certain conviction that you are one with her and she with you ... For eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end."
"Matter and energy seem granular in structure, and so does 'life', but not so mind."
"Nature has no reverence towards life. Nature treats life as though it were the most valueless thing in the world.... Nature does not act by purposes."
"I am born into an environment — I know not whence I came nor whither I go nor who I am. This is my situation as yours, every single one of you. The fact that everyone always was in this same situation, and always will be, tells me nothing. Our burning question as to the whence and whither — all we can ourselves observe about it is the present environment. That is why we are eager to find out about it as much as we can. That is science, learning, knowledge; it is the true source of every spiritual endeavour of man. We try to find out as much as we can about the spatial and temporal surroundings of the place in which we find ourselves put by birth…"
"I consider it extremely doubtful whether the happiness of the human race has been enhanced by the technical and industrial developments that followed in the wake of rapidly progressing natural science."
"For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice."
"Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe."
"The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists."
"What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space."
"If you cannot - in the long run - tell everyone what you have been doing, your doing has been worthless."
"Every man's world picture is and always remains a construct of his mind and cannot be proved to have any other existence."
"The idea of the continuum seems simple to us. We have somehow lost sight of the difficulties it implies...We are told such a number as square root of 2 worried Pythagoras and his school almost to exhaustion. Being used to such queer numbers from early childhood, we must be careful not to form a low idea of the mathematical intuition of these ancient sages, their worry was highly credible."
"The task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen but to think what no one has yet thought, about that which everybody sees."
“This life of yours, which you are living, is not merely a piece of this entire existence, but in a certain sense the ‘whole’; only this whole is not so constituted that it can be surveyed in one single glance."
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