Abstract By the early 1920s physicists had accepted the fact that, depending on the experiment chosen, matter as well as light could be displayed either as compact lumps or as widely spread-out waves. Few pretended to understand this seeming contradiction. The significance of this paradox came a few years later with the Schrödinger equation. But Erwin Schrödinger wasn’t looking for significance. At the time he saw de Broglie’s matter waves only as a way to get rid of Bohr’s “damn quantum jumps.”
Earlier this year (May) I wrote a paper entitled Scale Factors and the Scale Principle. In this paper I formulated a new law which describes a number of fundamental quantum mechanical laws. Since then I found that other quantum mechanical laws including the Bohr postulate and the De Broglie wavelength formula also obey the scale principle. Later I proved that this new law also describes the formula for the Schwarzschild radius, the equation for Einstein’s relativistic energy and Newton’s law of universal gravitation. Now I discovered that the Schrodinger’s equation can also be explained in terms of the present formulation.
1. Introduction C. W. Kilmister 2. Boltzmann's influence on Schrodinger Dieter Flamm 3. Schrodinger's original interpretation of the Schrodinger equation: a rescue attempt Jon Dorling 4. Are there quantum jumps? J. S. Bell 5. Square root of minus one, complex phases and Erwin Schrodinger Chen Ning Yung 6. Consequences of the Schrodinger equation for atomic and molecular physics W. E. Thirring 7. Molecular dynamics: from H + H, to biomolecules Martin Karplus 8. Orbital presentation of chemical reactions Kenichi Fukui 9. Quantum chemistry A. D. Buckingham 10. Eamon de Valera, Erwin Schrodinger and the Dublin Institute Sir William McCrea 11. Do bosons condense? J. T. Lewis 12. Schrodinger's nonlinear optics James McConnell 13. Schrodinger's unified field theory seen 40 years later O. Hittmair 14. The Schrodinger equation of the Universe S. W. Hawking 15. Overview of particle physics A. Salam 16. Gauge fields, topological defects and cosmology T. W. B. Kibble 17. Quantum theory and astronomy M. J. Seaton 18. Schrodinger's contributions to chemistry and biology Linus Pawling 19. Erwin Schrodinger's What is Life? and molecular biology M. F. Perutz.