Remembering Schrödinger

mohamed kamal arafa el-rakhawi

QUANTUM GENETICS When Your Cells Remember What You Never Lived and Predict What Has Not Happened Yet

Ijaz Durrani

Piotr Garbaczewski, Robert Olkiewicz

Johann Götschl

E. Schroedinger - a bibliographical sketch. Part 1 Physics in the philosophical system of Erwin Schroedinger: Erwin Schroedinger and the philosophy of the physicists holistic aspects of the Schrodinger equation Schroedinger's cat and the interpretation of quantum mechanics the Schroedinger function of macroscopic systems. Part 2 Life sciences and the theories of self in Erwin Schroedinger's philosophical system: Schroedinger's negentropy concept and biology determination and self-organization - Erwin Schroedinger's views on chance Schroedinger, the self and the genes Erwin Schroedinger and his contribution to a new understanding of living systems. Part 3 Erwin Schroedinger's world view and his philosophical system: on the scientific and humanistic thinking of Erwin Schroedinger during his last years Erwin Schroedinger as historian - notes towards an interpretation Erwin Schroedinger's position in the Einstein-Bohr debate the notion of consciousness in Schroedinger's philosophy of nature remembering Schroedinger the study of nature and the emergence of world view - philosophical reflections on E. Schreodinger's approach.

Jim Baggott, John L. Heilbron

Abstract Bohr brought to the challenge the conviction that no single picture could express the entire content of any domain of experience. He therefore did not privilege waves or particles but sought a way to have them both. Heisenberg bridled at this. He was not so fond as his boss of admitting waves associated with his rival Schrödinger. Their discussion grew heated. Bohr left to go skiing, and Heisenberg pre-empted him by inventing the uncertainty principle. Bohr responded with ‘complementarity’, and aired his new philosophy in a lecture at Lake Como. He talked for an hour, inaudibly, in lengthy ‘Bohrish’ sentences hard to unscramble when read and impossible when only heard. We must use both wave and particle descriptions, he claimed, but we must also remember that in the quantum domain they are merely symbolic, applicable only when limited by acts of observation, which can be described using only classical concepts.