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In case you missed it, thats H (psi) = E (psi), the Schrodinger equation. Google Schrodinger Equation if you don't know it...

#1: bugaboo (bugaboo) on Apr 12, 2010

boo for math!

I was expecting to see a visual representation of a mathematical wave. Oh well. I was not familiar with the Schrodeinger Equation, so I did google it. Found this to be interesting:

DeBroglie's matter waves weighing heavy upon his mind, Erwin Schrodinger wanted time to ponder, time to consider all the implications. Schrodinger, an Austrian physicist noted for his work on the physics of strings, took flight to a villa in the Swiss Alps in 1925, leaving his wife behind and gathering a former Viennese girlfriend. What would come of this (presumably) quiet period of reflection and thought would forever change the landscape of physics. Indeed, it would change the way we as a species reckons the universe we live in.
A sort of microscopic solar system, with electrons orbiting about the nucleus like planets to stars -- the Bohr atomic model was proving to be of limited utility. For hydrogen atoms, the agreement between predicted and observed behavior was sterling. However, for atoms with more than one electron -- even helium with only two electrons -- predicted and observed behavior radically diverged. Schrodinger desired to develop a model that agreed with the experimental evidence. What came of that illicit vacation to the Swiss Alps was a model that was not derived from any other, a model that can be called an intuitive guess, a leap of imagination, a model that is astonishingly accurate.

Continued here:
http://online.redwoods.cc.ca.us/depts/science/chem/storage/schrod/page2.htm

Then there's Schrodinger's Cat - now that would make an interesting puzzle:

http://www.kentchemistry.com/images/links/gases/300px-SchrC3B6dinger_cat.png

sounds like he was cheating on his wife

Don't know Schrodinger; don'tknow his equation, but I really like the design and your colors.

Schrodingers cat is alive

Schrodinger's cat is dead!

Nay, the cat is both.

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