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Graduate Question on many world interpretation of Quantum Theory
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Graduate Layman asks about Quantum "interaction"
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Graduate Quantum double slits moving past a quantum particle?
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Graduate An experiment that claims to doom Bohmian Mechanics
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Graduate Philosophy of quantum field theory
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Graduate How can the many worlds interpretation be deterministic?
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Graduate Is the nonlocality of a single photon an indisputable fact?
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Graduate Does this QM experiment show that science is doomed?
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Graduate How do you view Physics as a whole?
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Graduate The collapse of the wave function?
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Graduate Non-entangling environmental noise in QM/QFT
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Graduate What is the problem that the Many Worlds Interpretation aims to solve?
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Graduate Many Worlds versus Thermal interpretation
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Graduate Is unitarity necessary for the probabilistic interpretation?
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Graduate Doesn't Wigner's Friend Experiment solve the measurement problem?
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Graduate Does QCD make sense without a cutoff?
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Graduate The Penrose gravity thesis/interpretation of QM
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Graduate Advanced models for the Stern-Gerlach experiment
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Graduate Possibility that all current interpretations of QM are wrong
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Graduate On the interpretation of a correlator with different definite states
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Graduate Question about the perception of collapse in relational to QM interpretation
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Graduate De Broglie Relations Confusion
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Graduate De Broglie to Schrödinger to Thomson to Bohm?
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Graduate Entanglement on the Many Worlds model
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Graduate How Can Wigner's Friend Experiment Influence Novel Plots in Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Quantum measurement of a Strontium ion
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Graduate Algorithmic information theory's QM view of reality
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Graduate Could different outcomes have different physics in Wigner's friend?
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Graduate A question related to de Broglie wavelength and the Uncertainty Principle
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Graduate Is theory of measurement an oxymoron?
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Graduate Understanding the Debate: Many Worlds vs Modalism in Everettian QM"
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Graduate Schrodinger's Cat and The Universe
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Graduate The ontology problem of thermal interpretation
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Graduate Is anything possible in the many worlds interpretation?
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Graduate What is von Neumann's branching of possible worlds?
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Graduate The Combination Of Philosophy And Quantum Physics
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Graduate Is the past in MWI unambiguous?
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Graduate Does QED Originate from Non-Relativistic Systems?
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Graduate When does the wavefunction wavelength equal the De Broglie wavelength?
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Graduate Why are the quantum fields considered ontological?
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Graduate How does the thermal interpretation explain Stern-Gerlach?
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Graduate Many Worlds and the Measurement of an Electron
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Graduate Many worlds, observer and Entropy
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Graduate Is the Quantum/Classical Boundary the most important question in Physics?
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Graduate Why didn't radioactive decay probabilities cause the same uproar as QM
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Graduate Counterfactual Definiteness and MWI in Wiki
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Graduate The key to unifying the theories of the very large and the very small
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Graduate Realism from Locality? Bell's Theorem & Nonlocality in QM
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Graduate Authorities in Science: High Reputation Journals and Books
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Graduate What does MWI mean for our existing universe?
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Graduate Weinberg on the measurement problem
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Graduate The thermal interpretation and measurement
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Graduate Improbability of the Many-Worlds Interpretation?
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Graduate Bohmian mechanics for instrumentalists and quantum measurement
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Graduate Wigner's Friend and Incompatibility
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Graduate Does Feynman's path integral ignore alternative histories?
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Graduate Does Bohmian Mechanics yield the existence of a multiverse?
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Graduate A Realization of a Basic Wigner's Friend Type Experiment
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Graduate Is the concept of "wave function collapse" obsolete?
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Graduate Could MWI create universes with fundamentally different physical laws?
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Graduate Born's rule for the QED electron violates causality
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Graduate Soft photons and the ETH interpretation of QM
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Graduate How momentum measurement is defined in Pilot Wave interpretation?
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Graduate Relation between Bohm's Interpretation and Implicate order?
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Graduate Bohr's contribution to the Copenhagen interpretation
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Graduate QM Interpretations as applied to QFT
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Graduate Smolin: Realistic and anti-realistic interpretations of QM
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Graduate Schrodinger's Cat and the thermal interpretation
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Graduate Proof that the thermal interpretation of QM is wrong
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Graduate Reinterpreting Wave-Particle Duality: A New Perspective on Electrons and Protons
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Graduate Vaxjo Interpretation of Wave Function
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Graduate Copenhagen: Restriction on knowledge or restriction on ontology?
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Graduate Is there any Bohmian approach to quantum electrodynamics?
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Graduate How Does Decoherence Affect a Single Two-Level System in Hilbert Space?
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Graduate Bohmian Trajectories with New Slit
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Graduate Quantum Vacuum (or QFT) Interpretations
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Graduate MWI and FTL Communication Possibilities
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Graduate Does the MWI require "creation" of multiple worlds?
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Graduate De Broglie wavelength of particle in potential V
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Graduate What are Bohmian trajectories for a free electron?
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Graduate Path-choice experiment in the framework of the MWI
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Graduate Interpretation of state created by the field in free QFT
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Graduate A retrocausal amendment to de Broglie-Bohm pilot wave theory
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Graduate Concerning QED and the Many Worlds theory.
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Graduate Initial-value problem for Bohmian mechanics
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Graduate Bohmian Trajectories: Intersections & Young Experiments
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Graduate Drawing the line between the Pilotwave and Stochastic Interpretations
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Graduate Parallel Universes: Multiverse vs Many Worlds - Splits?
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Graduate Do worlds of MWI ontologically have to exist?
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Graduate All you ever wanted to ask about QBism
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Graduate Hardy's Paradox and lorentz invariant realist interpretation
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Graduate Are Modal interpretations emprically Lorentz invariant?
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Graduate Is Bohmian Mechanics incompatible with String Theory
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Graduate Would this experiment disprove Bohmian mechanics?
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Graduate Question about Many Worlds branching in Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate Wavefunctions and the de Broglie wavelength
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Graduate Multiple processes interpretation
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Graduate Is there any interpretation covering this?
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Graduate In what sense does MWI fail to predict the Born Rule?
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Graduate Does the Frauchiger-Renner Theorem prove only MWI is correct
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