Alpine cemetery glows at night from candles lit on each grave
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The village churchyard of Alpbach, Austria, which recycles its limited graves so that monuments name only those most recently buried.
Frank brought me here by midnight candelight to see the grave of Erwin Schrödinger, who has been exempted from the recycling.
Is Schrödinger’s cat buried here?
Please! We’re still not sure if Schrödinger’s cat is dead.
p.s. The village of Alpbach now gets most of its income from tourism–how does it preserve its rural quality and family farms?
Intelligent planning by the Austrian government! You cannot buy real estate in the village of Alpbach unless you personally will live there six months of the year. Therefore–no grand hotels, no vacation MacMansions.
Can the Alpbachians enforce such a law? They can and do. In several cases, people lost title to new purchases when their garbage collectors or mailmen reported their houses standing empty for months at a time.