The Name Is Not The Monster

The Name Is Not The Monster
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The greatest literary misattribution meets quantum confusion! People constantly call Frankenstein's creation "Frankenstein" when Frankenstein was actually the scientist who created the monster. Then there's Schrödinger, whose famous thought experiment has everyone thinking he owned a quantum cat, when in reality his "monster" was that terrifying Schrödinger equation - the mathematical nightmare that describes how quantum states evolve over time. Both scientists created something that haunts students to this day, but neither one was named after their creation. Next you'll tell me Einstein's monster was E=mc²...

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