What?

F... 🤮

How did you learn it?

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"

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

[Edited because I got too many replies]

@piggo Thank you for this tool. First time I met it. I'll keep it on my bookmarks. Also, I received thanks to other another cool option: the 'Internet Archives' method when the article wasn't behind a paywall I guess. Cool method, I'll also try to remember that.

@jrod3737

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

I am not ignoring or condoning his abuse.

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...

Erwin Schrödinger: Missbrauchstäter oder Rufmordopfer?

Vor kurzem wurden schwere Vorwürfe laut, dass Österreichs wichtigster Physiker des 20. Jahrhunderts minderjährige Frauen missbraucht habe. Eine Recherche

^{DER STANDARD}

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.)

wait what

Jebus wept.

"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*

@jrod3737

You can access most paywalled material if you have a library card.

Mine uses PressReader.

One of the relatively unacknowledged risks to public health is the sexual abuse of children.

So much evidence of societal trauma exists, yet it is ignored as a public health issue.

South Korean & Japanese women so traumatized by the rampant misogyny of their cultures, that the birth rate had plummeted.

Male supremacy has economic consequences
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/03/south-korea-fertility-rate-misogyny-feminism/673435/

New Zealand evidence that child victims of sexual abuse have reduced life expectancy of 10 to 20 years less
1/2

The Real Reason South Koreans Aren’t Having Babies

Gender, rather than race or age or immigration status, has become the country’s sharpest social fault line.

^{Anna Louie Sussman (The Atlantic)}

@jrod3737 Here you go: https://web.archive.org/web/20230430001350/https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/how-erwin-schrodinger-indulged-his-lolita-complex-in-ireland-1.4749204

(I’m a subscriber so consider this a gift link – they really should do gift links.)

How Erwin Schrödinger indulged his ‘Lolita complex’ in Ireland

Nobel Prize-winning physicist, who spent 17 years in Ireland, was a serial groomer of girls

^{Joe Humphreys (The Irish Times)}

@libroraptor Yes, at least his paragraph on Wikipedia is well detailed for whomever wants to get the info. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Gill#Sexual_abuse .

I just hope poeple will check this before praising the historical figures, to not make more statues or more golden letters to them. The knowledge is now public and sourced.

English sculptor, typeface designer, and printmaker (1882-1940)

^{Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)}

oh. wow.
and also wtf!

@hosford42

#Sexual_abuse #schrodinger #quantum #physics

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".

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.

@piggo @jrod3737 sadly, 12ft isn't as effective as it used to be, and more often than not it won't unlock articles anymore :/

I've seen https://1ft.io/ being used here and there.

1ft – One Step Beyond the Paywall

Freedom of Information, One Foot Away.

^1ft.io

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".

@Bibobu Yes, an edit that happened after I published this post. ( src: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Erwin_Schr%C3%B6dinger&action=history ) and it is a good thing. Thanks to the Wikipedian user who did this update and probably keep an eye on the comments here! 💜

(also, yay, French page mention it https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Schr%C3%B6dinger#Abus_sexuels )

@jrod3737

physicien et théoricien scientifique autrichien

^{Contributeurs aux projets Wikimedia (Fondation Wikimedia, Inc.)}

Somehow, that disgusting part of his life was never mentioned in the numerous lectures about his life's achievements. (And I went pretty far in physics academia.)

It's really shocking.
Hope that with more reckoning, naming and shaming, these atrocities will end.

Also, the cat thought experiment is dumb, because you can't actually shield a box from things like gravity.

If you did, you could essentially never open it back up -- it would be a new universe.

Anyway, art, artist. Humans can be terrible (and in this case, clearly was,) so I prefer the ideas which can have their own life!

#Sexual_abuse #schrodinger #quantum #physics

https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000132657725/erwin-schroedinger-missbrauchstaeter-undoder-rufmordopfer

Wikipedia verlinkt als Quelle obigen Artikel, der wesentliche Differenziertes sagt als die Wikipedia. Das sagt zumindest mal nix gutes über die Artikelqualität der WP 😑 wenn man eine Quelle so "zusammenfasst" und dabei zum gegenteiligen Schluss kommt.

Unabhängig davon sind die Vorwürfe, dazu weiß ich nix 🤷, aber Zweifel dürften mir aktuell noch angebracht sein.

Lesen lohnt sich jedenfalls.

Erwin Schrödinger: Missbrauchstäter oder Rufmordopfer?

Vor kurzem wurden schwere Vorwürfe laut, dass Österreichs wichtigster Physiker des 20. Jahrhunderts minderjährige Frauen missbraucht habe. Eine Recherche

^{DER STANDARD}