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Graduate Is decoherence necessary to observe a quantum event?
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Insights Quantum Physics via Quantum Tomography: A New Approach to Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate Bell's theorem vs Kochen–Specker theorem
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Undergrad Are we living in the matrix? No.
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Graduate Recent papers refuting real-valued quantum mechanics
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Undergrad Elitzur–Vaidman bomb tester in multi-world interpretation
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Undergrad Can POVM measurements be explained by projective measurements?
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Undergrad Bob and Alice, Wigner and his friend
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Undergrad Nima Arkani-Hamed's opinion on Many Worlds?
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Graduate Current status of FR type Thought experiments
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Undergrad Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
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Graduate Peter Morgan (QM ~ random field, non-commutative lossy records?)
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Undergrad Does the photon in a double slit experiment create many worlds?
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Undergrad Incompleteness of Griffiths' consistent histories interpretation
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Undergrad Consistent Histories Interpretation - History
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Graduate QM, Free Will, and Superdeterminism: Debunking the Myth of Free Will in Science
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Meaning of time in the multiverse theory
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Undergrad "No objective reality" in quantum mechanics?
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Undergrad Is Many Worlds Interpretation Compatible with ER=EPR?
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Undergrad Decoherence and Quantum tunnelling
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Undergrad Relativistic Bohmian trajectories of photons via weak measurements
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Undergrad The interpretation of probability
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Undergrad Does Heisenberg Have Ontological Commitments to Quantum 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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Undergrad Realistic interpretation of QM
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Undergrad The Casimir effect and Quantum vacuum fluctuations
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Undergrad HUP and the observer effect
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Undergrad Quantum interpretation and classical-quantum distinction
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Undergrad Phase velocity and frequency of a matter wave
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Undergrad Problems with Paper on QM Foundations
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Undergrad Is it really superposition, or do we just not know its position?
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Graduate 't Hooft cellular automaton interpretation
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Undergrad Are the implications of MWI really this horrifying?
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Graduate Dieter Zeh's MWI as Schrödinger equation + further assumptions
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Undergrad Understanding Bohmian Mechanics of Instrumentalists
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Graduate Interpretations of the No Communication Theorem
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Undergrad Quantum Ball and Cup - Thought Experiment
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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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Undergrad Closing the Superdeterminism Loophole?
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Undergrad What is the Interpretation of Observable Operators in Quantum Theory?
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Undergrad Inference about entanglement ontology
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Graduate Does superdeterminism undermine the scientific method?
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Undergrad QM and mental states,sure this isn’t philosophical discussion
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Undergrad Measurement problem in simple experiment
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Graduate Born Rule in Many Worlds Derived?
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Undergrad Quantum mechanics via quantum tomography
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Is Relational Quantum Mechanics the Key to Understanding Quantum Interactions?
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Undergrad Schrödinger's astronaut as a quantum computer?
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Undergrad Spooky action at a distance and various interpretations of QT
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Undergrad Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle Violation?
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Undergrad Schrödinger's Cat and radioactive atom
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Undergrad Determinism in a reversible polarizer experiment
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Undergrad MWI and interpretation of measurements
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Graduate Schrödinger's original interpretation
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Undergrad Input on a basic Copenhagen question
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Undergrad Bayesian statistics in science
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Undergrad Does the double slit experiment show waves collapse when observed?
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Undergrad Is GRW theory an interpretation of quantum mechanics or a rival theory?
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Undergrad What is the current status of Many Worlds?
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Undergrad Is formal QM correct in its entirety?
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Undergrad What Makes Ontology Easy for Kids but Challenging for Quantum Physicists?
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Undergrad The splitting into worlds in MWI
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Undergrad Why do we use the word interpretation?
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Undergrad David Deutsch's Many Worlds Interpretation and the Double Slit Experiment
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Undergrad Understanding the Multiverse per David Deutsch
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Undergrad Heisenberg on ''uncertainty relation does not apply to the past''
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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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Undergrad Issues on notation and concept of entanglement
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Particle ontology and quantum fluctuations
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Undergrad Uncertainty = our ignorance or intrinsic to reality?
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Undergrad What is the true nature of reality according to quantum mechanics?
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Undergrad Is this popular description of entanglement correct?
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Undergrad New papers on randomness and QM, need insight please
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Undergrad About non-observable assumptions
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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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Undergrad Does QM offer a solution to Zeno's paradoxes?
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Undergrad Deterministic wind down of the Universe under MWI or Copenhagen?
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Graduate The wave-function as a true ensemble
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Undergrad Where is the quantum system prior to measurement?
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Undergrad Rigorous: Where is the Quantum System Prior to Measurement?
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Undergrad The Probability Distribution and 'Elements of Reality'
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Undergrad Physical Universe vs. Simulated Universe
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Undergrad Another Wigner's Friend Thought Experiment Paper
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Undergrad QM: Interesting View - Get the Inside Scoop
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Undergrad The question of retrocausality
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Why is "super-determinism" a loophole to Bell's theorem?
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Insights No Preferred Reference Frame: Quantum Mechanics Interpretations
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Undergrad Are there signs that any Quantum Interpretation can be proved or disproved?
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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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Undergrad Relational QM Example, Contradiction?
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Undergrad What is the current perspective on quantum interpretation?
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Graduate Implications of quantum foundations on interpretations of relativity
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