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NotSuspicious | 2 years ago

And in the Christmas spirit, he made his big discovery while cheating with his wife on a Christmas retreat in 1925-1926

>A few days before Christmas, 1925, Schrodinger, a Viennese-born professor of physics at the University of Zurich, took off for a two-and-a-half-week vacation at a villa in the Swiss Alpine town of Arosa. Leaving his wife in Zurich, he took along de Broglie's thesis, an old Viennese girlfriend (whose identity remains a mystery) and two pearls. Placing a pearl in each ear to screen out any distracting noise, and the woman in bed for inspiration, Schrodinger set to work on wave mechanics. When he and the mystery lady emerged from the rigors of their holiday on Jan. 9, 1926, the great discovery was firmly in hand.

https://www.nytimes.com/1990/01/07/books/the-lone-ranger-of-...

He was also an admitted pedophile. It is possible that that "mystery girlfriend" he was with while coming up with his revolutionary perspective on quantum physics was an underage girl he was grooming

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/how-erwin-s...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rebeccacoffey/2022/01/24/schrdi...

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kridsdale1|2 years ago

Sounds like a stretch if she was described as “an old girlfriend” (as in, much time has passed, not that she is old). But she may have been significantly young in their first relationship, who knows?