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I wish I could read the Irish Times article referenced in this Wikipedia page

@davidrevoy what an absolute shame!

@davidrevoy sooo disappointed I feel

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What?

F... 🤮

How did you learn it?

@davidrevoy Gosh 🤢

@davidrevoy l'article en français, ne semble pas y faire référence.

@davidrevoy eh, thanks for ruining my otherwise perfect Sunday 😕

Geez, this passage from Wikipedia is disgusting:

he stated a "predilection for teenage girls on the grounds that their innocence was the ideal match for his natural genius"

@davidrevoy Celebrate ideas, never people: people tend to have many bad ideas beyond the few good ones for which they have become famous. Schrödinger is a good example of that: he was a horrible person.

@davidrevoy Oof, this makes being named after him a rather grim topic from now on :c

@davidrevoy eeewwww

@davidrevoy Aglups 😱​

@davidrevoy C'est répugnant. Et le pire c'est que je suis certain qu'une vaste partie de l'humanité n'en a rien a foutre. :blobfoxdeadinside:

Aw hell :blobnotlike:​

@davidrevoy 🤮 I will put him in my list of famous child abusers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_petitions_against_age_of_consent_laws#Signatories_to_the_January_petition

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Always best not to have idols

@davidrevoy I should point out that my username is mainly a reference to the famous thought experiment.

I am not ignoring or condoning his abuse.

@davidrevoy man, this is dark :-(

@davidrevoy FYI, there is also a lecture room named after him in ENS Lyon. I've heard rumours that renaming was underway. At least people are advised to call it "the main physics lecture hall" in order to avoid the now infamous name.

@davidrevoy A much better quantum physicist is Werner Heisenberg, who, unlike Schrödinger, was a devout Evangelical Lutheran. Maybe put Heisenberg in his place?

@davidrevoy The Wikipedia page refers to https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000132657725/erwin-schroedinger-missbrauchstaeter-undoder-rufmordopfer, which claims that the targets of his (let's call it) affection were of age (except for one, when he was 11-13 years old himself), with the accusations "rounding down" their ages quite liberally.

Maybe it's that uncertainty why that aspect of his life isn't well discussed...

@davidrevoy La liste des personnalités adulées qui s'étaient comportés comme des crevards est affreusement longue. Je crois qu'on devrait séparer l'artiste de son oeuvre, parce que si on se met à jeter les réalisations de toutes personnes qui ont été unsafe, ça risque d'être une hécatombe.

@davidrevoy I'm pleased to see more people learning this. People who have been spreading this information are a small but growing group.

@davidrevoy If you go dig just a tiny bit there’s an awful lot of terrible things to find about a lot now dead famous people.

Several famous authors had terrible sides, as well as scientists. The movie industry is completely filled with horrors.

Not saying your reaction is wrong, quite the opposite. Just saying it’s sadly pretty easy. :(

(I think you would make a pretty good political cartoonist. But I quite enjoy your work in general.)

@davidrevoy À la lumière de ces révélation, peut-on dire qu'on l'apprécie et ne l'apprécie pas en même temps ?

@davidrevoy Oumf. I knew about it (I learnt it recently), and it's so, so painful. « Jamais de héros » is my motto, but it's difficult to maintain.

@davidrevoy ._.

@davidrevoy holy fuck, had no idea, that's absolutely disgusting

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wait what

Jebus wept.

@davidrevoy Thanks for this info. I will try to never refer to him again. Maybe I'll only ever call it the "Quantum Cat" experiment?

@davidrevoy Wow. What an absolute shitbag.

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Ewwwwwe! 🤢

@davidrevoy Evil piece of shit. How many Black men and women were murdered in enslavement, who could have carried far greater gifts than the pedophile Schrodinger, we will never know. Disgusting. His OWN COUSIN.

@davidrevoy Minutes after reading this, I learned that the creator of the famous Gill Sans font, also called the "British Helvetica," Eric Gill, had sex with his daughters, his sisters and his dog. Is today National Disillusionment Day?

@davidrevoy :O Get in the box, Erwin.

@davidrevoy I'm pretty sure Hatsune Miku is the progenitor of the progenitor of quantum mechanics and the inventor of the cat-box thought experiment

@davidrevoy "predilection for teenage girls on the grounds that their innocence was the ideal match for his natural genius"

This is the most disgusting diary entry I've ever read *puke*

@davidrevoy WHAT?!?!!? I am saddened to hear that. Too much suffering sometimes.

@davidrevoy I mean saddened that he did that.

@davidrevoy "on the grounds that their innocence was the ideal match for his natural genius" Sounds like Tate bullshit before his time.

@davidrevoy Good thing to learn. Again a case of "great people are not necessarily good people".

@davidrevoy wtf that's awful I had no idea either

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I didn't know he did such things!

@davidrevoy dafuq!!??

@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org Holy cow I never heard of that. Thanks for letting me know.

@davidrevoy didn't see Schrodinger being milkshake ducked for me in 2023, but here we are

@davidrevoy Good riddance.

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Couldn't agree more. Now we just need to rebaptise the Schrodinger equation. "Non-relativistic Klein-Gordon equation" is a bit clunky though :(

@davidrevoy "Is Schrödinger uncancelled, or is he cancelled?" I wonder, as I click the Wikipedia link and begin to read

@davidrevoy I was unaware of this. Never idolized him, though, but now word "technofascism" got one more example of how it happens when someone who buried into STEM too much, believe they are genius and use it as excuse to be jerks of all possible kinds - from pedophiles to fascists....

@davidrevoy Ew

@davidrevoy Unfortunately quite a number of smart guys had very reprehensible behaviors/ideas/talks... I may be pessimistic but I think the contrast between their public and private faces makes that shocking but more anonymous people than we dare to imagine have the same problems.

@davidrevoy Yep

@davidrevoy I find it weird that type designer, child abuser, bestialist, adulterer – documented in his diary – Eric Gill has been carefully exempted from such critique.

There have been some moves to remove his sculptures, but I've never seen anything big – such as universities, companies and in particular the major publishing, type and graphics software companies, distance themselves from Gill Sans and Perpetua, for instance.

@davidrevoy no wonder he wasn't able to appreciate that the cat's subjective experience was also a part of the equation.

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oh. wow.
and also wtf!

@hosford42

#Sexual_abuse #schrodinger #quantum #physics

@davidrevoy When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut is a great book of new fiction which includes Schrödinger and other physicists with all their foibles. Very good reading, despite Erwin's crimes.

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I shall call it ‘The Cat’ from now on.

@davidrevoy Oh, this is something I wished I didn’t know and read

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Sounds like narcissism. It's pathological, incurable, and should be tested for.

"Schrödinger kept a record of his sexual liaisons including children he sexually abused in a diary he called Ephemeridae, in which he stated a "predilection for teenage girls on the grounds that their innocence was the ideal match for his natural genius".

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The cat was right he isn't worth a damn.

@davidrevoy I wish I could say I'm surprised, but at this point I kinda expect all physicists to be sex pests tbh.

@davidrevoy he stated a "predilection for teenage girls on the grounds that their innocence was the ideal match for his natural genius"

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@davidrevoy @photex insert glib comment about the superpositional nature of people who you haven’t looked into yet

@davidrevoy I am, again, reassured that my conviction to not have heroes, is justified.

I can respect specific things people do, but I don't assume that means they're good people. More weakly, I don't even assume they've not done bad things.

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I would kindly suggest to put this under CW as some people could be triggered with the sexual abuse of minors.

There could be people here who experienced it and may feel very bad as well as some having to relive things.

@davidrevoy aaaand another one

@davidrevoy WTF

Schrödinger kept a record of his sexual liaisons including children he sexually abused in a diary he called Ephemeridae, in which he stated a "predilection for teenage girls on the grounds that their innocence was the ideal match for his natural genius".

@davidrevoy Merci pour l'info ! :shibamad:

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Ah ouais, le sale type.

@davidrevoy thanks for sharing.
I imagined a cat coming out of the box with one certainty: pedophile.

@davidrevoy oh, that famous never-failing wiki-proof, which references the not publicly available dairy and some biography written by a no-name in 2012. It’s pathetic.