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Graduate Universal quantum physics
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Graduate Alternative model for counterfactual definiteness in Bohm-like EPR
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Graduate Understanding Barandes' microscopic theory of causality
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Graduate Collapse of wave function and consciousness
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Graduate Challenge to Bohmian mechanics by Sharoglazova et al, Nature, 2025
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Graduate Constrained colliders in entanglement swapping
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Graduate How Does MWI explain Type I PDC Photon Polarization Entanglement?
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Graduate Is MWI Considered Local in Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Barandes's Unistochastic Refomulation Applied to Entanglement Swapping
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Graduate Quantum nonlocality and "spooky action at a distance"
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Graduate Clarification regarding argument in EPR paper
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Graduate Forward-in-time analysis of delayed-choice entanglement swapping
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Graduate Dyson's View Of Wavefunction Collapse
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Graduate Consistent Histories and Locality
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Graduate Interpreting photon correlations from independent sources
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Graduate Quantum mechanics, many worlds, and its implications -- I have questions
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Graduate Tumulka on Bohmian QED
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Graduate Papers on Splitting single particles
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Graduate Question about entanglement over large distances
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Graduate Why is the "conscious observer" thing considered?
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Graduate Teaching ideal quantum measurement, from dynamics to interpretation
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Graduate Resolution of the Frauchiger-Renner paradox
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Graduate Is the QT "no-cloning theorem" suitable as "Chronological Protection"?
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Graduate Feynman rules for Entangled photons
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Graduate Double slit experiment using entangled photons
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Graduate Gravity in the Thermal Interpretation
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Graduate A Critique of Everett's "Many Wolds" interpretation
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Graduate Possibilities of Time-Independent Entangled Photons
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Graduate Entangling a photon from the Sun with one from Earth
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Graduate Yakir Aharonov's time-symmetric formulation of quantum mechanics
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Graduate Loophole-free test of local realism via Hardy's violation
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Graduate MWI and the entangled photon experiment
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Graduate Is there still a Wigner's friend paradox?
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Graduate The Quantum State as a Function of The Quantum Field
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Graduate Game theory, quantum physics and the Bell inequality (paper)
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Graduate Decoherent Histories and Measurement
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Graduate Statistical ensemble interpretation done right
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Graduate Is Quantum Mechanics Truly Underdetermined by Evidence?
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Graduate Roger Penrose´s OR theory, Consiousness is a QM phenomenon?
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Graduate Probabilistic game of life as a toy model for Everett's interpretation
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Graduate Decoherence vs Observer Wave Function Collapse & MWI: Questions
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Graduate How many branches are possible after measurement/splitting?
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Graduate States & Observables: Are They Really Different?
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Graduate Comment on Nicolas Gisin "Intuitionistic Mathematics"?
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Graduate A stronger proof of nonlocality, or what?
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Graduate How Many Hidden Variables Would It Take to Model Photon Polarization?
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Graduate QM Eigenstates and the Notion of Motion
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Graduate What is the mechanism behind Quantum Entanglement?
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Graduate Nobody understands quantum physics?
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Graduate Hidden Assumptions in Bell's Theorem?
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Graduate Post-Selection: Pre-existing Correlations or Action At A Distance?
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Graduate Can the double slit experiment distinguish between QM interpretations?
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Graduate Quantum Perspectivalism by D.Dieks
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Graduate Ensembles in quantum field theory
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Graduate Is Entanglement Swapping Driven by Post-Selection or Bell State Measurement?
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Graduate Extended Wigner’s Friend Scenario and the existence of the reality
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Graduate Can Special Relativity Explain the Alice and Bob Spin Measurement Paradox?
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Graduate Is decoherence necessary to observe a quantum event?
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Graduate Bell's theorem vs Kochen–Specker theorem
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Graduate Recent papers refuting real-valued quantum mechanics
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Graduate Current status of FR type Thought experiments
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Graduate Peter Morgan (QM ~ random field, non-commutative lossy records?)
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Graduate QM, Free Will, and Superdeterminism: Debunking the Myth of Free Will in Science
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Graduate Meaning of time in the multiverse theory
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Graduate How does Bohmian Mechanics actually replicate QM?
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Graduate Interpretations of the Aharonov-Bohm effect
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Graduate 't Hooft cellular automaton interpretation
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Graduate Dieter Zeh's MWI as Schrödinger equation + further assumptions
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Graduate Interpretations of the No Communication Theorem
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Graduate The Emergence of Classicality -- Is Decoherence accepted among physicists?
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Graduate Probability via Expectation and Callen's criterion
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Graduate Interpreting QM without Schrödinger's equation
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Graduate "Quantum Mysteries for No One" Comments?
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Graduate Does superdeterminism undermine the scientific method?
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Graduate Born Rule in Many Worlds Derived?
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Graduate Is Relational Quantum Mechanics the Key to Understanding Quantum Interactions?
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Graduate Schrödinger's original interpretation
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Graduate Is my understanding of the answers given correct?
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Graduate Retrodictive Inferences in Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate Particle ontology and quantum fluctuations
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Graduate Is Bohmian mechanics a convenient ontological overcommitment?
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Graduate Assumptions of the Bell theorem
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Graduate The wave-function as a true ensemble
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Graduate Why is "super-determinism" a loophole to Bell's theorem?
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Graduate Fundamental reality: Hilbert space
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Graduate Multi-particle state, wave-function with fewer zeros interpretation
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Graduate An interesting paper about measurement and locality in QFT
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Graduate Implications of quantum foundations on interpretations of relativity
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Graduate Relational Quantum Mechanics Interpretation
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Graduate Evolution of the Renner et al Wigner-like paradox
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Graduate Criteria for a good quantum interpretation
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Graduate QFT interpretation of Hawking Radiation
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Graduate The minimal statistical interpretation is neither minimal nor statistical
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Graduate A philosophy of quantum mechanics question
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Graduate Is the Ensemble Interpretation Inconsistent with the PBR Theorem?
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Graduate Difference Between Collapse and Projection
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Graduate Consistent Histories solipsism?
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Graduate Consistency/continuity in the MWI
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Graduate Does Everettian QM imply solipsism according to Travis Norsen and Sean Carroll?
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Graduate MWI interpretation and free-will compatible?
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