Ask people about Schrodinger, and they may - just may be able to remember something about him and a cat in a box. But Erwin Schrodinger (who would have been 134 today) brought much more than a gedankenversuch about a cat that's both dead and alive - that thought experiment came out of his explanation of how something can be 2 things in quantum mechanics.
He won the nobel prize for his Schrodinger equation which describes the behaviour of the wave function.
Now, as for the young elephant.
Today is also International Youth Day
Isn't that every day for them?
And it's also, my son's favourite animal (speaking of youth), World Elephant Day.
Wonder if Schrodinger first tried to do his thought experiment with a young elephant in the jungle before he settled on cats in boxes with poison.
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