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"Lost Schrödinger manuscript reveals his true view of quantum randomness" — Phys.org · Science & Medicine
A forgotten three-page manuscript by Erwin Schrödinger, written around 1944 and recently rediscovered in an Austrian archive by physics historian Flavio Del Santo of the University of Geneva, shows Schrödinger working out a hidden-variable model that could reproduce quantum-mechanical probabilities, at least for photons. It complicates the standard picture of him as someone who simply accepted irreducible : he was apparently testing whether apparently random quantum outcomes could be explained by deeper, hidden factors.
The core claim is solid as a discovery report: it traces to a named primary source—the surviving manuscript itself—and to a named historian, Flavio Del Santo, with Phys.org as reputable secondary coverage. The interpretive leap that this reveals Schrödinger's overall 'true view' is an inference from one short document and is less certain than the manuscript's existence and content.
Newly reported in this wave on 2026-10-22 as the recent rediscovery of an old document—the underlying manuscript dates from around 1944, so this is new news about old material.