Erwin Schrödinger
Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger was an Austrian physicist born in Vienna August 12, 1887. He was awarded Paul Dirac, the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1933 for the wave equation called the Schrödinger equation. It is a physicist at the origin of quantum physics. Known also by the amazing mental experiment, Schrödinger's cat, following a correspondence with Albert Einstein in 1935. He received his doctorate in theoretical physics at the University of Vienna in 1910. In 1914, Erwin Schrödinger participates in World War I as an officer of artillery. In 1914, Erwin Schrödinger participates in the First World War as an artillery officer. In 1933, Schrödinger left Germany and went to England, because of Nazism and anti-Semitism. At the University of Oxford, he received the Nobel Prize.
The paradox
Schrödinger's cat was the imaginary experiment that led this Austrian physicist to explain the interaction and measurement in quantum mechanics. This paradox was described in 1935, consisted in considering the existence of a cat inside a box, in which there was also a glass ampoule with a very volatile poison and a hammer attached to the ampoule, placed in such a way that, if When it fell, the blister would break, letting the poison escape, killing the cat. The hammer was connected to an alpha particle detector, and if it detected one of these, the hammer would fall causing what we have just described. If the detector did not detect anything, the cat would continue alive, since the hammer would not blow the ampule with the poison. Next to the detector was a radioactive atom with a 50% chance of emitting an alpha particle in one hour