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A lost Schrödinger manuscript reveals a twist in quantum physics

29 points ibobev 23 hours ago 8 comments

rramadass 21 hours ago | parent

Great article on an interesting topic.

The article mentions the great Physicist, Prof. S.N.Bose's take in a lecture delivered to the Indian Science Congress in 1944. It is titled "The Classical Determinism and The Quantum Theory".

The corresponding pdf can be found at Prof.S.N.Bose archive under Section 6 "Documents" titled "Presidential address at the Indian Science Congress, Delhi,1944 [Current Science, Vol XIII, No. 1]" - https://www.bose.res.in/Prof.S.N.Bose-Archive/

Prof. S.N.Bose is the Physics great after whom "Bosons", "Bose-Einstein Statistics", "Bose-Einstein Condensate" and even "Higgs Boson" are named - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyendra_Nath_Bose

srean 20 hours ago | parent

I find SN Bose's derivation of quantized distribution of energy levels so much more elegant than Plank's which reads more like a desperate hack to force a predetermined answer.

rramadass 20 hours ago | parent

Wikipedia has a telling quote from the Physicist, Prof. Partha Ghose;

Bose's work stood at the transition between the 'old quantum theory' of Planck, Bohr and Einstein and the new quantum mechanics of Schrödinger, Heisenberg, Born, Dirac and others.

I have always felt that Prof.S.N.Bose never got full credit and acclaim for his achievements maybe because there were so many other greats at that time though Einstein recognized his originality.

artnap 17 hours ago | parent

Schrödinger's fix to Whittaker's photon argument was to let the hidden variable take any value between zero and one, instead of just two. It's funny that such a small change was enough to rebuild the quantum probabilities.

readthenotes1 28 minutes ago | parent

A good example of a monster whose professional life benefits the world.

Worth the cost? I'd say not, but I'm generally an optimist.

abbadadda 19 minutes ago | parent

Why was Schrödinger a monster in his personal life?

dabiged 15 minutes ago | parent

The guy was a paedophile and justified it because he was so intelligent he deserved to sleep with children.