Happy Newton’s Day instead of Merry Christmas

In the past I studied Electronic Engineering and Energy and Environmental Engineering at the University of Technology - at least for three years. My keen interest into science and questions that would expand my knowledge had driven me to study technology for three years until I reached my dead end in science - I hate advanced math - which brought me to the point where I had to change my field of study. Now I should write these preposterous blog entries - but such as I already described in my former post, I will write about every idea and thing I come up with. Now to get back to my “round-the-corner-logic”, at my previous University I attended classes in physics. Obviously, I learned something about gravity and one apple, but I also learned something about a cat that is in two conditions simultaneously, it is dead and alive. My question now is, what do Sir Isaac Newton and Erwin Schrödinger and his “Cat” have in common? Nothing, as it first seems, except their profession - they were both physicists, aside from the “Cat”, obviously. I began with the headline Happy Newton’s Day (that idea originally came from The Big Bang Theory) instead of Merry Christmas. What are the odds? Sir Isaac Newton was born on Christmas Eve, and he was not born on Christmas Eve. Like “Schrödinger’s Cat” being both dead and alive. On the one hand, Sir Isaac Newton was born on the 25^th December 1642 - in that case, Happy Newton’s Day!  - on the other hand, after changing the calendar from Julian counting to Gregorian, Sir Isaac Newton was born on the 4^th January 1643.

We can all decide what this time of togetherness with friends and family and candles, and sweets from the Christmas Market means to us, and how we prefer to call it.

But please, do not call it Merry Xmas!