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...devout Quaker, lifelong teetotaler and bachelor, more philosopher than scientist, devoted his speculations mostly to the borderland between science and religion. Interested in the questions that science could not answer, he once remarked: "What do we really observe? Relativity theory has returned one answer-we only observe relations. Quantum theory returns another answer-we only observe probabilities...
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...
Maybe LIFE slipped for a moment in its role of trying to paint an accurate picture of the American scene. After all, there's no sex in a Chem lab; and you can't very well show sweater girls studying quantum mechanics...
Bogota, the capital, has more bookshops than restaurants. The deputies "read their poems aloud to one another, and talk about the quantum theory." Gunther sat down to his first dinner hoping to hear about the Fifth Column and the Panama Canal, "but no one would talk about anything except Marcel Proust...
...world finally will be rid of the linotype, in fact, of movable type. No more shall it be shackled by the Relativity Theory of Einstein, the Quantum Theory of Planck, the Wave Mechanics of Heisenberg. Out with Kekule's theory of molecular structure, Helmholtz's electrodynamics, the chemistry of aniline dyes, etc. Out with microscopes, telescopes, cameras, and other instruments requiring lenses, perfected in Germany, fundamentally of course for military usage. Out with Ehrlich's "Magic Bullet," Mendel's laws of heredity. Finally, but not until our program has been completed, out with the sterilization...