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Undergrad Single Quark at Rest: The Mystery of Dark Matter?
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Undergrad Entanglement swapping, monogamy, and realism
  • kurt101
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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 Making Sense of QBism: Non-Mathematical Reality & Reforming the Theory
  • 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 Post-Selection: Pre-existing Correlations or Action At A Distance?
  • 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 the existence of the 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 Physics via Quantum Tomography: A New 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 Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
  • 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 QM, Free Will, and Superdeterminism: Debunking the Myth of Free Will in Science
  • 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 Is Many Worlds Interpretation Compatible with 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 Is Relational Quantum Mechanics the Key to Understanding Quantum 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 What Makes Ontology Easy for Kids but Challenging for 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 Understanding the Multiverse per David Deutsch
  • expos4ever
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Undergrad Heisenberg on ''uncertainty relation does not apply to the past''
  • A. Neumaier
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Graduate Is my understanding of the answers given correct?
  • wittgenstein
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Graduate Retrodictive Inferences in Quantum Mechanics
  • Morbert
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Undergrad Issues on notation and concept of entanglement
  • entropy1
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Graduate Particle ontology and quantum fluctuations
  • TheHeraclitus
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Undergrad Uncertainty = our ignorance or intrinsic to reality?
  • wittgenstein
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Undergrad What is the true nature of reality according to quantum mechanics?
  • deepalakshmi
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Undergrad Is this popular description of entanglement correct?
  • entropy1
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