What Laura signified for Petrach and his sonnets, a Viennese girl meant for Erwin Schrödinger and his world famous wave equation .
A few days before Christmas 1925, ladies’ man and one of the world’s most brilliant physicists Erwin Schrödinger took off for a vacation in a villa in the Swiss Alps. His mission was to discover a predominating equation which defines, solves and predicts any quantum mechanic system. The essential parts that led up to accomplishing this mission were: leaving his wife at home, replacing her by a Viennese girlfriend and taking along de Broglie’s thesis and two pearls. Once in the villa it only took Schrödinger to plug a pearl in each ear to filter out distracting noises and to have the mesmerizing girl in his bed for inspiration, to come to the great discovery of the following equation : Hy = Ey.
It’s just a pity that the girl’s identity remained a mystery up until now, who knows what she could have meant for cancer-researching-scientists … ?
Pieter-Jan Sabbe
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the y in equation should be a greek capital psi, apparently the website isn't able to publish it.
Pieter-Jan Sabbe
There is no doubt about it: this is a great blog.
It deals with a funny, scientific fact, has a good introduction and a splendid ending!
You don't use very difficult words, which eases the reading.
Although, if I were you, in the last sentence I should have used a present perfect tense instead of a simple past. Because the action lasts up to now... But I'm not 100% sure of that.
But overall, I couldn't have done it any better. Good job, Pieter-Jan!
Dries Van den Bossche
Pieter-Jan: wow, great!
Dries, you're right about the tense in the final sentence (and about the great structure)
olaf
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