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 Is the Theory of Everything necessarily deterministic?
- SEYED2001
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Undergrad Question pertaining to the random distribution of many worlds
- g564321
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Undergrad Is there a name for this type of interpretation?
- Gary_T2018
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Undergrad Role of the collapse in the instrumentalist interpretation
- timmdeeg
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Undergrad Wavefunction collapse and temporal ordering in delayed-choice quantum eraser
- johnconner
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Graduate Quantum double slits moving past a quantum particle?
- Leopolitan
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Undergrad The probability when the wave-function collapses
- thaiqi
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Graduate An experiment that claims to doom Bohmian Mechanics
- Jamister
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Undergrad How is the Born rule deduced from decoherence?
- Jamister
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Insights Answering Mermin’s Challenge with the Relativity Principle
- RUTA
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Graduate Philosophy of quantum field theory
- Demystifier
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Graduate How can the many worlds interpretation be deterministic?
- Lunct
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Undergrad What are current Physicists' general positions on the Copenhagen Interpretation?
- LCSphysicist
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Graduate Is the nonlocality of a single photon an indisputable fact?
- ilper
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Undergrad EPR and Non-Locality - For and Against
- bhobba
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Graduate Does this QM experiment show that science is doomed?
- francis20520
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Undergrad Continuous vs discrete Universe
- Lynch101
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Undergrad Wilson's RG trajectories, Lagrangians and many worlds?
- Suekdccia
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Undergrad A 5th Dimension May Explain Quantum Theory
- Secan
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Undergrad Valid Wigner's friend experiment with entangled photons and double slits?
- Joao
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Graduate How do you view Physics as a whole?
- jordi
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Undergrad What Are the Official Terms for the Two Types of Quantum Superposition?
- Secan
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Undergrad What Is Objective Universal Time and How Does It Conflict with Relativity?
- kurt101
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Graduate The collapse of the wave function?
- Jstar70
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Undergrad From de Broglie's postulates to Shrödinger's equation
- quasar987
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Undergrad Teaching Bohmian QM before standard QM
- Demystifier
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Undergrad Single world or multiple worlds?
- entropy1
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Undergrad Equivalence of interpretations in more elaborate setups
- greypilgrim
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Undergrad Many Worlds versus Decoherent Histories
- Morbert
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Undergrad Investigations to find the cause of wave collapse?
- manases
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Undergrad Does Decoherence get rid of all Quantumness?
- allisrelative
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Graduate Non-entangling environmental noise in QM/QFT
- Auto-Didact
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Undergrad Imaginary number i in Pauli matrixes
- Jonathan freeman
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Undergrad Forces (Fields) of Nature and Quantum Foundations
- Secan
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Graduate What is the problem that the Many Worlds Interpretation aims to solve?
- Quotidian
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Undergrad Pilot Wave Theory: Against the Rest of Quantum Mechanics?
- manases
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Graduate Many Worlds versus Thermal interpretation
- A. Neumaier
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Undergrad Consciousness and quantum mechanics
- rasp
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Undergrad Is a Sparse Many Worlds Representation of Existence Feasible?
- Jarvis323
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Undergrad How is realism understood in QM?
- Lynch101
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Undergrad Ontology of measurement and correlation
- entropy1
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Undergrad Why do physicists avoid ontology in quantum mechanics?
- entropy1
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Undergrad Anti-realist Interpretations of QM
- Lynch101
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Undergrad Compatibility of MWI with probability of outcomes
- entropy1
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Graduate Is unitarity necessary for the probabilistic interpretation?
- Demystifier
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Graduate Doesn't Wigner's Friend Experiment solve the measurement problem?
- allisrelative
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Undergrad Is Free Will a Foundational Assumption in Quantum Theory?
- Lynch101
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Undergrad Anton Zeilinger's comment about free will being required for science
- msumm21
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Graduate Does QCD make sense without a cutoff?
- Demystifier
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Undergrad Confusion Abounds In Discussing QM
- bhobba
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Graduate The Penrose gravity thesis/interpretation of QM
- user30
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Undergrad Bell's superdeterminism compared to determinism
- user30
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Undergrad Does 'many worlds', imply worlds before the Big Bang?
- bland
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Undergrad Quantum Realism and Bell Locality
- G Delta
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Undergrad Steven Weinberg on the interpretation of quantum mechanics
- A. Neumaier
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Undergrad What Made Einstein Accept the Expanding Universe Model?
- Mary Conrads Sanburn
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Undergrad Is the Following How Most Students Think of Einstein's View Of QM
- bhobba
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Graduate Advanced models for the Stern-Gerlach experiment
- A. Neumaier
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Undergrad How does Bohmian mechanics explain quantum bomb testing?
- greypilgrim
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Undergrad Does quantum field theory make quantum mechanics interpretations obsolete?
- AndreasC
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Undergrad Difference between quantum Darwinism and decoherence
- Paul Parnell
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Undergrad New paper by physicists Ken Wharton and Nathan Argaman on Retrocausality
- kquantum
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Insights Modern Physics Understood as an Unrecognized Kuhnian Revolution
- RUTA
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Undergrad What Is the Role of Ontology in the Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics?
- ftr
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Graduate Possibility that all current interpretations of QM are wrong
- joegibs
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Undergrad Modern Assesment of Grete Hermann's Philosophy on Quantum Mechanics
- Jarvis323
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Undergrad What did Heisenberg know about the measurement problem?
- MichPod
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Undergrad How do instrumentalist and realist interpretations of QM differ?
- Lynch101
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Undergrad For and Against the Copenhagen Interpretation
- Lynch101
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Graduate On the interpretation of a correlator with different definite states
- Israel.cma
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Graduate Why does consciousness perceive collapse in relational quantum mechanics?
- evi7538
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Graduate De Broglie Relations Confusion
- lekh2003
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Graduate De Broglie to Schrödinger to Thomson to Bohm?
- PhilDSP
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Graduate Entanglement on the Many Worlds model
- jeremyfiennes
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Undergrad The Cellular Automaton Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
- lucas_
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Undergrad What exactly is a measurement device and how does it work?
- Quantum Alchemy
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Undergrad Could many worlds be a solution to time travel paradoxes?
- bland
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Undergrad Can the hydrodynamic formulation of QM be understood purely classically?
- Killtech
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Undergrad How could a quantum system "predict the future"?
- sayetsu
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Undergrad Possible typo in Quantum Theory for Mathematicians by Hall
- danielristic
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Undergrad Observer superposition in MWI?
- entropy1
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Undergrad Does the Act of Observing a Detector Influence Quantum Measurements?
- sayetsu
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Graduate How Can Wigner's Friend Experiment Influence Novel Plots in Quantum Mechanics?
- sayetsu
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Undergrad Schrodinger’s cat and the Many Worlds interpretation
- MichaelAlexDavM
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Graduate Quantum measurement of a Strontium ion
- pinball1970
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Undergrad Getting rid of nonlocality from quantum physics
- Vaxjo
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Graduate Algorithmic information theory's QM view of reality
- sayetsu
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Undergrad Relativistic energy equation applied to a double-slit experiment
- SEYED2001
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Undergrad The spin of the neutron is a quantized property
- borib
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Undergrad Wigner's Friend shows the difference between Observer and Measurement
- Quantum Alchemy
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Undergrad The thermal interpretation of quantum physics
- A. Neumaier
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Graduate Could different outcomes have different physics in Wigner's friend?
- Suekdccia
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Undergrad "A sentient being can't be aware of being in a superposition"
- Swamp Thing
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Undergrad Hydrodynamic interpretation and consistency classic probability
- Killtech
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Undergrad Can we trust a self-consistent but untestable quantum gravity theory?
- timmdeeg
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Undergrad Quantum physics vs Probability theory
- Killtech
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Undergrad Reading materials on quantum foundations
- WWCY
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Undergrad Does information get lost by measurement?
- entropy1
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Graduate A question related to de Broglie wavelength and the Uncertainty Principle
- Rishabh Narula
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Undergrad Bell tests with uncorrelated photon pairs and the CH inequality
- vortextor
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