How do you pronounce Schrodinger?
How do you pronounce Schrodinger in German?
In Schrödinger, the stress is pronounced on the first syllable, -SHROE. The “sch” is pronounced simply as an “sh” sound. The “ö”, which has been transcribed as “oe” is pronounced roughly like the “ear” in the word “heard”, but with a much subtler pronunciation of the “r”.
What is Schrodinger’s cat in layman’s terms?
In simple terms, Schrödinger stated that if you place a cat and something that could eliminate the cat (a radioactive atom) in a box and sealed it, you would not know if the cat was deceased or alive until you opened the box, so that until the box was opened, the cat was (in a sense) both “dead and alive”.
What is Schrodinger’s theory?
In the world’s most famous thought experiment, physicist Erwin Schrödinger described how a cat in a box could be in an uncertain predicament. The peculiar rules of quantum theory meant that it could be both deceased and alive, until the box was opened and the cat’s state measured.