It’s not often that a sophisticated scientific thought experiment makes it into the cultural lexicon, but if one ever had cross-over appeal, it’s “Schrödinger’s Cat.” Erwin Schrödinger, the Austrian physicist who came up with the paradox (and, I might add, one of the darkest LOLCatz images of all time) in 1935 as part of his Nobel-winning work in quantum mechanics, would have celebrated his 126 birthday today, and the geeky folks at Google have marked the occasion with an appropriately feline doodle.
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