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
- 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 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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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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