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A Exploring the Limits of Quantum Mechanics: David Wallace's Manuscript (2022)
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A How does Bohmian Mechanics actually replicate QM?
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A Interpretations of the Aharonov-Bohm effect
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A 't Hooft cellular automaton interpretation
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A Dieter Zeh's MWI as Schrödinger equation + further assumptions
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A Interpretations of the No Communication Theorem
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A Interpreting QM without Schrödinger's equation
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A "Quantum Mysteries for No One" Comments?
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A Does superdeterminism undermine the scientific method?
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A Born Rule in Many Worlds Derived?
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A Schrödinger's original interpretation
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A Is my understanding of the answers given correct?
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A Retrodictive Inferences in Quantum Mechanics
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A Is Bohmian mechanics a convenient ontological overcommitment?
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A Assumptions of the Bell theorem
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A The wave-function as a true ensemble
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A Fundamental reality: Hilbert space
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A Multi-particle state, wave-function with fewer zeros interpretation
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A An interesting paper about measurement and locality in QFT
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A Implications of quantum foundations on interpretations of relativity
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A Evolution of the Renner et al Wigner-like paradox
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A Criteria for a good quantum interpretation
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A The minimal statistical interpretation is neither minimal nor statistical
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A How to construct a diagrammatic interpretation out of ##Z[J]##
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A Is the Ensemble Interpretation Inconsistent with the PBR Theorem?
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A Difference Between Collapse and Projection
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A Consistent Histories solipsism?
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A Consistency/continuity in the MWI
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A Everettian FAPP solipsism
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A Question on many world interpretation of Quantum Theory
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A An experiment that claims to doom Bohmian Mechanics
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A Philosophy of quantum field theory
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A Is the nonlocality of a single photon an indisputable fact?
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A How do you view Physics as a whole?
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A Non-entangling environmental noise in QM/QFT
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A Many Worlds versus Thermal interpretation
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A Is unitarity necessary for the probabilistic interpretation?
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A Does QCD make sense without a cutoff?
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A The Penrose gravity thesis/interpretation of QM
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A Advanced models for the Stern-Gerlach experiment
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A Question about the perception of collapse in relational to QM interpretation
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A De Broglie to Schrödinger to Thomson to Bohm?
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A Wigner's Friend solutions
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A Quantum measurement of a Strontium ion
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A Algorithmic information theory's QM view of reality
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A Could different outcomes have different physics in Wigner's friend?
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A Is theory of measurement an oxymoron?
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A Many Worlds vs Modalism
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A The ontology problem of thermal interpretation
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A What is von Neumann's branching of possible worlds?
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A Is QED nonrelativistic?
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A Why are the quantum fields considered ontological?
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A How does the thermal interpretation explain Stern-Gerlach?
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A Realism from locality?
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A Weinberg on the measurement problem
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A The thermal interpretation and measurement
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A Wigner's Friend and Incompatibility
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A Does Feynman's path integral ignore alternative histories?
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A Does Bohmian Mechanics yield the existence of a multiverse?
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A A Realization of a Basic Wigner's Friend Type Experiment
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A Born's rule for the QED electron violates causality
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A Soft photons and the ETH interpretation of QM
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A How momentum measurement is defined in Pilot Wave interpretation?
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A Relation between Bohm's Interpretation and Implicate order?
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A Bohr's contribution to the Copenhagen interpretation
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A Smolin: Realistic and anti-realistic interpretations of QM
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A Schrodinger's Cat and the thermal interpretation
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A Proof that the thermal interpretation of QM is wrong
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A Copenhagen: Restriction on knowledge or restriction on ontology?
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A Is there any Bohmian approach to quantum electrodynamics?
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A Interpretation of Decoherence
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Quantum Interpretations

Welcome to the Quantum Interpretations forum!

Discuss the foundations of Quantum Mechanics as a theory structure and different published interpretations of Quantum Mechanics.

Interpretations of quantum mechanics are a way to explain how the mathematical theory of quantum mechanics "corresponds" to reality.

These discussions present unique challenges since they deal with matters for which there is not an established "right" answer that has been confirmed by experiment and is generally accepted by scientists in the field. As a result, such discussions do not usually reach a fairly quick resolution, and often do not reach a resolution at all.

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