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Only in the precarious peace of Eire could Europe today provide such a spectacle. At Dublin's Trinity College last month crowds were turned away from a jampacked scientific lecture.* Cabinet ministers, diplomats, scholars and socialites loudly applauded a slight, Vienna-born professor of physics. Erwin Schrödinger was speaking on the subject "What Is Life...
Schrödinger has a way with him. His soft, cheerful speech, his whimsical smile are engaging. And Dubliners are proud to have a Nobel prizewinner living among them.† But what especially appeals to the Irish is Schrödinger's study of Gaelic, Irish music and Celtic design, his hobby of making tiny doll-house furniture with textiles woven on a midget Irish loom-and, above all, his preference for a professorship at the Dublin Advanced Studies Institute to one at Oxford...
Schrödinger is a mathematical mystic. Says he: "There is no worldly truth but mathematical truth. In politics, history and diplomacy, truth changes from day to day and people get different concepts of right. But mathematics never...
Schrödinger's mathematics, however. true, is rarely intelligible to the public. His Nobel Prize achievement, ten years ago, was devising wave mechanics to reconcile the seeming contradictions in the nature of light. Light unquestionably has a wave motion, yet it obeys the quantum laws as if it were composed of particles or small bundles of energy. Schrödinger imagined a sub-ether filled with ripples too small for detection. He conceived of a "particle" of light as an "area of ripples," a wave-throb that is detectable by instruments...
...quantum mechanics retains it. Although it is a tremendously powerful approach to atomic behavior, quantum mechanics is shot through with uncertainty. It has given birth to the Uncertainty Principle of Heisenberg, which states that the position and velocity of an electron cannot be simultaneously ascertained. In the Schrödinger wave mechanics, the little symbol ψ is important. It stands, roughly, for statistical probability. Instead of locating the electron, it locates a region in which the electron probably occurs...