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Schrodinger and the cat (2011)

Erwin Schrodinger is considered as one of the founding fathers of quantum physics. He is, of course, most famous for his thought experiment, known as Schrodinger’s cat, an idea he developed while in correspondence with his friend, Albert Einstein . He received a Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in 1933.


Acrylic on canvas, 508mm x 406mm


I can find no evidence that he ever actually owned a pet cat, and perhaps since one possible outcome of his thought experiment is the death of the cat, it suggests he wasn’t overly fond of them.



In an attempt to convey the state of uncertainty in which the cat exists, I have painted the animal as a chimeric phantasm, visible fully only from a certain angle.


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