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Undergrad A survey about philosophical aspects of physics
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Undergrad Quantum Foundations: outlook on this research field?
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Undergrad Are Copenhagen and Blockworld Interpretations Compatible in Quantum Mechanics?
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Relational Quantum Mechanics Interpretation
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Undergrad Questions about Adler paper "Why Decoherence has not Solved ...."
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Graduate Evolution of the Renner et al Wigner-like paradox
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Graduate Criteria for a good quantum interpretation
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Undergrad Decoherence references and a question about the measurement problem
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Undergrad Conflict between the Block Universe and Bell Tests?
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Undergrad A tool for checking claims of violating Bell's theorem
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Undergrad Is the model presented in the thread consistent with QM?
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Undergrad Model used to refute Bell's theorem
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Undergrad PBR & Relativity: Wave Function Uniqueness?
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Undergrad Understanding Coherence vs. Entanglement in Quantum Eraser
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QFT interpretation of Hawking Radiation
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Undergrad Waveform collapse due to entaglement cascade
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Undergrad Einstein & Bohr Debate: Epistemological Paradox
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Graduate The minimal statistical interpretation is neither minimal nor statistical
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Undergrad Question on number of generated worlds in many world interpretation
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A philosophy of quantum mechanics question
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Undergrad On being the sole observer in MWI
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Undergrad Origin of Probabilities in Quantum Mechanics?
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Undergrad The need for a "conscious observer"
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Undergrad Contextuality without incompatibility?
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Undergrad How do hidden variables supposedly explain radioactive decay?
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Graduate Is the Ensemble Interpretation Inconsistent with the PBR Theorem?
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Undergrad Atom in a Decayed / Non-Decayed State
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Undergrad How Does Quantum Measurement Influence Reality Splitting in Many Worlds Theory?
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Undergrad Quantum stuff is neither particles nor waves
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Undergrad Everett's MWI versus DeWitt's MWI
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Undergrad Locally mediated interpretations with future input dependence
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Graduate Difference Between Collapse and Projection
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Undergrad The Ensemble Interpretation and the Double Slit Experiment
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Graduate Consistent Histories solipsism?
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Graduate Consistency/continuity in the MWI
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Undergrad A question about the other observers
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Undergrad Sum over histories implies no definite history?
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Undergrad Quantum Immortality without MWI?
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Undergrad RQM - the metaphysics of it all....
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Undergrad Determinism and causality in QM - a case
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Undergrad What is the QM description of a macroscopic event?
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Graduate Does Everettian QM imply solipsism according to Travis Norsen and Sean Carroll?
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Undergrad Understanding Bell's Statements on Freedom of Choice
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Undergrad Many-worlds implies computers are not conscious?
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MWI interpretation and free-will compatible?
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Undergrad Is Energy an Illusion in the Many-Worlds Interpretation?
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Graduate Question on many world interpretation of Quantum Theory
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Undergrad What does "multiple worlds" in MWI mean?
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Undergrad Is completeness synonymous with hidden variables in QM?
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Undergrad How to envision particles in superposition in Many Worlds presplitting
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Undergrad Probability in MWI and the Copenhagen interpretation
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Undergrad What is the Copenhagen interpretation according to its originator(s)?
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Undergrad Interpretation of quantum theories through the interpretation of classical ones
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Undergrad Superdeterminism and the hidden variable
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Undergrad Ontology of an electron passing through a Stern-Gerlach magnet
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Layman asks about Quantum "interaction"
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Undergrad How Does the Many-Worlds Interpretation Handle Expectation Values?
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Undergrad Gerard 't Hooft's "Fast Vacuum Fluctuations"
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Undergrad How the Born rule is understood in various interpretations?
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Undergrad Hidden Variable Interpretation
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Undergrad Is the phrase "discrete spectrum" in rule #5 a contradiction in terms?
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Undergrad Binomial distribution of "worlds" in MWI
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Undergrad Is the electric field of an atom a superposition or mean of electron positions?
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Undergrad Is this why a pilot wave theory cannot be accepted?
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Undergrad Conservation of energy in Everett's MWI
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Undergrad A non-branching interpretation of the universal wavefunction
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Undergrad Can we imagine that an electron moves on an orbit of chaos?
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Undergrad What is an interpretation of wave of field?
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Undergrad Why is the projection postulate needed?
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Undergrad Is the Theory of Everything necessarily deterministic?
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Undergrad Question pertaining to the random distribution of many worlds
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Undergrad Is there a name for this type of interpretation?
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Undergrad Role of the collapse in the instrumentalist interpretation
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Undergrad Copenhagen interpretation & Delayed-choice quantum eraser
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Quantum double slits moving past a quantum particle?
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Undergrad The probability when the wave-function collapses
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Graduate An experiment that claims to doom Bohmian Mechanics
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Undergrad How is the Born rule deduced from decoherence?
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Insights Answering Mermin’s Challenge with the Relativity Principle
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Graduate Philosophy of quantum field theory
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How can the many worlds interpretation be deterministic?
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Undergrad What are current Physicists' general positions on the Copenhagen Interpretation?
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Graduate Is the nonlocality of a single photon an indisputable fact?
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Undergrad EPR and Non-Locality - For and Against
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Does this QM experiment show that science is doomed?
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Undergrad Continuous vs discrete Universe
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Undergrad Wilson's RG trajectories, Lagrangians and many worlds?
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Undergrad A 5th Dimension May Explain Quantum Theory
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Undergrad Is this a valid Wigner's friend experiment?
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Graduate How do you view Physics as a whole?
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Undergrad What Are the Official Terms for the Two Types of Quantum Superposition?
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Undergrad What Is Objective Universal Time and How Does It Conflict with Relativity?
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The collapse of the wave function?
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Undergrad From de Broglie's postulates to Shrödinger's equation
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Undergrad Teaching Bohmian QM before standard QM
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Undergrad Single world or multiple worlds?
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Undergrad Equivalence of interpretations in more elaborate setups
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Undergrad Many Worlds versus Decoherent Histories
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Undergrad Investigations to find the cause of wave collapse?
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Undergrad Does Decoherence get rid of all Quantumness?
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