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Einstein and Schrodinger's Quest for a Unified Theory led to a Titanic Clash

StartsWithABang writes When it comes to the very nature of quantum mechanics — about the inherent uncertainty and indeterminism to reality — it's one of the most difficult things to accept. Perhaps, you imagine, there's some underlying cause, some hidden reality beneath what's visible that actually is deterministic. After all, a cat can't simultaneously be dead and alive until someone looks can it? That's one of the problems that both Einstein and Schrödinger wrestled with during their lives. An investigation of that story, their work on that front, and their friendship that ensued as both pursued that same end is thoroughly investigated here by physicist Paul Halpern.

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  1. Is there a fixed length for he by clickety6 · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...because this headline seems to have been cut sh

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  2. Re:Cl? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    A light cruiser that hit an iceberg in 1912?

  3. Titanic Cl by Rhaban · · Score: 4, Funny

    Iceberg Incom

  4. Re:The fucking cat by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    I was going to comment on the irony of your statement, but then I wondered if you could be both right and wrong at the same time...

  5. Re:Not Hard To Imagine by beerbear · · Score: 4, Funny

    Fascinating! Now please pass the bong.

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