Schrödinger's cat in popular culture Schrödinger's cat in popular culture Schrödinger's cat is a thought experiment, usually described as a paradox, devised by Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger in 1935. It illustrates what he saw as the problem of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics applied to everyday objects. The thought experiment presents a cat that might be alive or dead, depending on an earlier random event. In the course of developing this experiment, he coined the term "Verschränkung" (entanglement). It was not long before science-fiction writers picked up this evocative concept, often using it in a humorous vein. Several have taken the thought experiment a
Two-body Dirac equations The four-vectors formula_120 and formula_121 have only three independent components since The similarity to the three-dimensional structure of the nonrelativistic Schrödinger equation can be made more explicit by writing the equation in the c.m. frame in which Comparison of the resultant form with the time independent Schr\"{o}dinger equation makes this similarity explicit. A plausible structure for the quasipotential formula_83 can be found by observing that the one-body Klein-Gordon equation formula_127 takes the form formula_128 when one introduces a scalar interaction and timelike vector interaction via formula_129and formula_130. In the two-body case, separate classical and quantum field theory arguments show that