In 1944, quantum physicist Erwin Schroedinger wrote a short book called What Is Life: The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell, exploring how the relatively new field of quantum mechanics might play ...

It’s the weirdest thing: quantum theory works incredibly well in practice. It powers devices ranging from MRI machines to ...

The existence of quantum biology as a discipline implies that traditional understanding of life processes is incomplete. Further research will lead to new insights into the age-old question of what ...

Schrodinger's cat When Einstein and two co-authors published their famous rebuttal of the Copenhagen interpretation in 1935, fellow Copenhagen critic Erwin Schrodinger wrote to him in support.

More than 80 years ago, Erwin Schrödinger, a theoretical physicist steeped in the philosophy of Schopenhauer and the Upanishads, delivered a series of public lectures at Trinity College, Dublin ...

First devised by physicist Erwin Schrödinger in 1925, his thought experiment evocatively describes the weird rules of the quantum world by imagining a cat placed inside an opaque box with a ...

Nearly 75 years ago, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Erwin Schrödinger wondered if the mysterious world of quantum mechanics played a role in biology. A recent finding by Northwestern Engineering’s Prem ...

Quantum mechanics often has difficulty breaking through to the general public, which is where the importance of "Schrödinger's Cat" lies. The thought experiment captured the general imagination ...