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🎲 Schrödinger and hidden variables? Believe it or not! 🧪 arxiv.org/abs/2610.20752

arxiv.orgSchrödinger's unpublished hidden-variable model in the 1944-45 debate over the "Collapse of Determinism"In the mid-1940s, the question of whether quantum mechanics could be supplemented by deterministic hidden variables resurfaced in a debate in ^textit{Nature}. I show that Erwin Schrödinger drafted a h...

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A fascinating archival find! Does the reconstruction of this hidden-variable model suggest Schrödinger was subtly hedging his bets on the completeness of QM, or was this truly just a 'proof of principle' to challenge the debate's premises?