Quantum Interpretations and Foundations Forum

Join discussion regarding the different quantum interpretations and foundations. These discussions present some unique challenges since they deal with matters for which there is not an established "right" answer.

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Undergrad Thoughts about this Bayesian Mechanics paper?

  • Fra
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Undergrad Question around 'quantum object hits screen'

  • timmdeeg
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Undergrad What does it take to solve the measurement problem? (new paper published)

  • member 673059
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Undergrad Why do macroscopic objects have precise center of mass positions?

  • Laci
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Undergrad Deriving QM axioms from observations and Gleason's theorem

  • bhobba
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Graduate How Many Hidden Variables Would It Take to Model Photon Polarization?

  • DrChinese
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Graduate QM Eigenstates and the Notion of Motion

  • strangerep
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Undergrad Can a single quark at rest exist as a stable particle?

  • MatthewKM
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Undergrad Entanglement swapping, monogamy, and realism

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Graduate What is the mechanism behind Quantum Entanglement?

  • curiosity1
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Undergrad Is the Quantum Wavefunction Truly a Representation of Reality?

  • Leureka
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Undergrad De Broglie–Bohm theory scattering from point charge, paths

  • Spinnor
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Undergrad Resolving QBism's contradictions with non-mathematical reality

  • Demystifier
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Undergrad What is the relationship between events and outcomes in quantum theories?

  • Morbert
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Undergrad What is the overarching concept of Quantum Field Theory (QFT)?

  • accdd
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Graduate Nobody understands quantum physics?

  • John Mcrain
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Graduate Hidden Assumptions in Bell's Theorem?

  • Jarvis323
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Undergrad Can interpretation-dependent facts be derived from the axioms?

  • Nullstein
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Graduate Can entanglement swapping be modeled as post-selection of pre-existing correlations?

  • DrChinese
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Graduate Can the double slit experiment distinguish between QM interpretations?

  • PeterDonis
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Undergrad Nature Physics on quantum foundations

  • Demystifier
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Insights Superdeterminism and the Mermin Device

  • RUTA
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Graduate Quantum Perspectivalism by D.Dieks

  • lwjjack
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Graduate Ensembles in quantum field theory

  • A. Neumaier
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Undergrad The collapse of a quantum state as a joint probability construction

  • Peter Morgan
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Graduate Is Entanglement Swapping Driven by Post-Selection or Bell State Measurement?

  • DrChinese
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Undergrad What does delayed choice entanglement swapping require?

  • StevieTNZ
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Graduate Extended Wigner's friend scenario and objective reality

  • Spathi
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Undergrad Is QBism simply a subjective interpretation of science?

  • PreposterousUniverse
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Graduate Can Special Relativity Explain the Alice and Bob Spin Measurement Paradox?

  • AndrzejB
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Graduate Is decoherence necessary to observe a quantum event?

  • Heidi
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Insights Quantum tomography as an approach to quantum mechanics

  • A. Neumaier
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Graduate Bell's theorem vs Kochen–Specker theorem

  • PreposterousUniverse
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Undergrad Are we living in the matrix? No.

  • atyy
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Graduate Recent papers refuting real-valued quantum mechanics

  • Paul Colby
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Undergrad Elitzur–Vaidman bomb tester in multi-world interpretation

  • Spathi
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Undergrad Can POVM measurements be explained by projective measurements?

  • A. Neumaier
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Undergrad Bob and Alice, Wigner and his friend

  • Heidi
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Undergrad Nima Arkani-Hamed's opinion on Many Worlds?

  • Suekdccia
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Graduate Current status of FR type Thought experiments

  • AAAdrian
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Undergrad Does many-worlds interpretation explain spacetime emergence?

  • atyy
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Graduate Peter Morgan (QM ~ random field, non-commutative lossy records?)

  • Fra
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Undergrad Does the photon in a double slit experiment create many worlds?

  • entropy1
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Undergrad Incompleteness of Griffiths' consistent histories interpretation

  • gentzen
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Undergrad Consistent Histories Interpretation - History

  • EclogiteFacies
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Graduate Superdeterminism, free will, and whether science requires either

  • bertrandrussell
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Graduate Meaning of time in the multiverse theory

  • MysticWizard
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Undergrad "No objective reality" in quantum mechanics?

  • dendros
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Undergrad Does Many Worlds eliminate the need for wormholes in ER=EPR?

  • Bob Walance
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Undergrad Decoherence and Quantum tunnelling

  • DesertFox
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Undergrad Relativistic Bohmian trajectories of photons via weak measurements

  • atyy
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Undergrad The interpretation of probability

  • Killtech
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Undergrad Does Heisenberg Have Ontological Commitments to Quantum Theory?

  • DesertFox
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Graduate How does Bohmian Mechanics actually replicate QM?

  • Son Goku
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Graduate Interpretations of the Aharonov-Bohm effect

  • Demystifier
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Undergrad Realistic interpretation of QM

  • kurt101
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Undergrad The Casimir effect and Quantum vacuum fluctuations

  • DesertFox
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Undergrad HUP and the observer effect

  • DesertFox
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Undergrad Quantum interpretation and classical-quantum distinction

  • DesertFox
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Undergrad Phase velocity and frequency of a matter wave

  • Philip Koeck
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Undergrad Problems with Paper on QM Foundations

  • bhobba
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Undergrad Is it really superposition, or do we just not know its position?

  • gjphys
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Graduate 't Hooft cellular automaton interpretation

  • Heidi
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Undergrad Are the implications of MWI really this horrifying?

  • hungrybear
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Graduate Dieter Zeh's MWI as Schrödinger equation + further assumptions

  • gentzen
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Undergrad Understanding Bohmian Mechanics of Instrumentalists

  • Lynch101
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Graduate Interpretations of the No Communication Theorem

  • PeterDonis
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Undergrad Quantum Ball and Cup - Thought Experiment

  • Lynch101
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Graduate The Emergence of Classicality -- Is Decoherence accepted among physicists?

  • Question69
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Graduate Probability via Expectation and Callen's criterion

  • gentzen
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Graduate Interpreting QM without Schrödinger's equation

  • Jarvis323
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Graduate "Quantum Mysteries for No One" Comments?

  • RUTA
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Undergrad Closing the Superdeterminism Loophole?

  • Mgt3
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Undergrad What is the Interpretation of Observable Operators in Quantum Theory?

  • Killtech
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Undergrad Inference about entanglement ontology

  • entropy1
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Graduate Does superdeterminism undermine the scientific method?

  • wittgenstein
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Undergrad QM and mental states,sure this isn’t philosophical discussion

  • Adrian Lee
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Undergrad Measurement problem in simple experiment

  • msumm21
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  • Poll Poll

Graduate Born Rule in Many Worlds Derived?

  • Adrian Lee
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Undergrad Quantum mechanics via quantum tomography

  • A. Neumaier
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Graduate Relational quantum mechanics and its approach to interactions

  • Steve Esser
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Undergrad Schrödinger's astronaut as a quantum computer?

  • Mike S.
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Undergrad Spooky action at a distance and various interpretations of QT

  • J O Linton
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Undergrad Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle Violation?

  • manyworldsBob
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Undergrad Schrödinger's Cat and radioactive atom

  • entropy1
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Undergrad Determinism in a reversible polarizer experiment

  • kurt101
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Undergrad MWI and interpretation of measurements

  • entropy1
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Graduate Schrödinger's original interpretation

  • Killtech
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Undergrad Input on a basic Copenhagen question

  • Mr Book
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Undergrad Bayesian statistics in science

  • Sunil
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Undergrad Does the double slit experiment show waves collapse when observed?

  • Sciencelad2798
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Undergrad Is GRW theory an interpretation of quantum mechanics or a rival theory?

  • Demystifier
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Undergrad What is the current status of Many Worlds?

  • Quantumental
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Undergrad Is formal QM correct in its entirety?

  • entropy1
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Undergrad How to explain ontology to orthodox quantum physicists

  • Demystifier
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Undergrad The splitting into worlds in MWI

  • entropy1
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Undergrad Why do we use the word interpretation?

  • Jarvis323
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Undergrad David Deutsch's Many Worlds Interpretation and the Double Slit Experiment

  • Marek Domanski
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Undergrad What does Deutsch mean by a continuum of universes?

  • expos4ever
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Undergrad Heisenberg on ''uncertainty relation does not apply to the past''

  • A. Neumaier
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