In 1935, Austrian-born physicist Erwin Schrödinger described a thought experiment that magnified a glaring problem at the heart of quantum mechanics. To this day, the problem remains, summed up by ...

One reason to test ever larger Schrödinger’s kittens is they might show us that quantum mechanics itself breaks down before ...

Question: Will we meet the goal of holding the rise of mean global temperature to below 2°C? Answer: Yes and no, simultaneously. Welcome to Schrödinger’s climate, a paradox in which commentary on ...

Quantum mechanics is a physics framework that describes how matter and energy behave at an extremely small scale, ...

The famous paradox of Schrödinger’s cat starts from principles of quantum physics and ends with the bizarre conclusion that a cat can be simultaneously in two physical states – one in which the cat is ...

Modern physicists often point to Schrödinger’s cat paradox to illuminate the peculiarity and utter bizarreness of our limited understanding of quantum mechanics. Devised by Austrian physicist Erwin ...