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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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Graduate Non-entangling environmental noise in QM/QFT
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Undergrad Imaginary number i in Pauli matrixes
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Undergrad Forces (Fields) of Nature and Quantum Foundations
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Graduate What is the problem that the Many Worlds Interpretation aims to solve?
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Undergrad Pilot Wave Theory: Against the Rest of Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Many Worlds versus Thermal interpretation
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Undergrad Consciousness and quantum mechanics
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Undergrad Is a Sparse Many Worlds Representation of Existence Feasible?
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Undergrad How is realism understood in QM?
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Undergrad Ontology of measurement and correlation
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Undergrad QM & Ontology: Why Should We Stay Away?
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Undergrad Anti-realist Interpretations of QM
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Undergrad Compatibility of MWI with probability of outcomes
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Graduate Is unitarity necessary for the probabilistic interpretation?
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Graduate Doesn't Wigner's Friend Experiment solve the measurement problem?
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Undergrad Is Free Will a Foundational Assumption in Quantum Theory?
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Undergrad Anton Zeilinger's comment about free will being required for science
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Graduate Does QCD make sense without a cutoff?
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Undergrad Confusion Abounds In Discussing QM
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Graduate The Penrose gravity thesis/interpretation of QM
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Undergrad Bell's superdeterminism compared to determinism
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Undergrad Does 'many worlds', imply worlds before the Big Bang?
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Undergrad Quantum Realism and Bell Locality
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Undergrad Steven Weinberg on the interpretation of quantum mechanics
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Undergrad What Made Einstein Accept the Expanding Universe Model?
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Undergrad Is the Following How Most Students Think of Einstein's View Of QM
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Graduate Advanced models for the Stern-Gerlach experiment
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Undergrad How does Bohmian mechanics explain quantum bomb testing?
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Undergrad Is Quantum Field Theory Redefining the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics?
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Undergrad Help! I Don't Understand Quantum Darwinism
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Undergrad New paper by physicists Ken Wharton and Nathan Argaman on Retrocausality
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Insights Modern Physics Understood as an Unrecognized Kuhnian Revolution
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Undergrad What Is the Role of Ontology in the Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Possibility that all current interpretations of QM are wrong
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Undergrad Modern Assesment of Grete Hermann's Philosophy on Quantum Mechanics
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Undergrad What did Heisenberg know about the measurement problem?
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Undergrad Understanding the Fundamental Difference in Interpretations of QM
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Undergrad For and Against the Copenhagen Interpretation
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Graduate On the interpretation of a correlator with different definite states
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Graduate Question about the perception of collapse in relational to QM interpretation
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Graduate De Broglie Relations Confusion
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Graduate De Broglie to Schrödinger to Thomson to Bohm?
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Graduate Entanglement on the Many Worlds model
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Undergrad The Cellular Automaton Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
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Undergrad What exactly is a measurement device and how does it work?
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Undergrad Could many worlds be a solution to time travel paradoxes?
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Undergrad Can the hydrodynamic formulation of QM be understood purely classically?
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Undergrad How could a quantum system "predict the future"?
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Undergrad Is this a typo? (Quantum Theory for Mathematicians by Brian C. Hall)
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Undergrad Observer superposition in MWI?
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Undergrad Does the Act of Observing a Detector Influence Quantum Measurements?
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Graduate How Can Wigner's Friend Experiment Influence Novel Plots in Quantum Mechanics?
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Undergrad Schrodinger’s cat and the Many Worlds interpretation
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Graduate Quantum measurement of a Strontium ion
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Undergrad Getting rid of nonlocality from quantum physics
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Graduate Algorithmic information theory's QM view of reality
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Undergrad Relativistic energy equation applied to a double-slit experiment
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Undergrad The spin of the neutron is a quantized property
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Undergrad Wigner's Friend shows the difference between Observer and Measurement
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Undergrad The thermal interpretation of quantum physics
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Graduate Could different outcomes have different physics in Wigner's friend?
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Undergrad "A sentient being can't be aware of being in a superposition"
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Undergrad Hydrodynamic interpretation and consistency classic probability
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Undergrad What if a scientific theory is not testable?
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Undergrad Quantum physics vs Probability theory
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Undergrad Reading materials on quantum foundations
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Undergrad Does information get lost by measurement?
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Graduate A question related to de Broglie wavelength and the Uncertainty Principle
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Undergrad Bell-type Polarization Exp: Uncorrelated Photon Pairs & End of Nonlocality?
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Undergrad Superposition status in the different interpretations.
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Undergrad Do collapse interpretations respect conservation laws?
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Undergrad Bohm guiding field, electrons in a semiconductor "box"
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Undergrad Photon Double Slit Experiment: Visualizing the Guiding Field
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Undergrad How to derive Born's rule for arbitrary observables from Bohmian mechanics?
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Graduate Is theory of measurement an oxymoron?
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Graduate Understanding the Debate: Many Worlds vs Modalism in Everettian QM"
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Undergrad What is the POVM generalization of Born's rule for quantum measurements?
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Graduate Schrodinger's Cat and The Universe
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Undergrad New interpretation of quantum mechanics
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Undergrad On the relation between physics and philosophy
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Graduate The ontology problem of thermal interpretation
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Graduate Is anything possible in the many worlds interpretation?
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Undergrad Did Schrödinger himself take his "Cat Experiment" seriously?
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Undergrad QM through stochastic optimization on spacetimes
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Graduate What is von Neumann's branching of possible worlds?
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Undergrad Questions about QFT and the reality of subatomic particles
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Undergrad Questions on the Bohmian mechanics interpretation for instrumentalists
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Undergrad Does MWI Agree on Measurement Apparatus Pointer?
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Undergrad Did de Broglie contribute later to pilot wave theory?
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Graduate The Combination Of Philosophy And Quantum Physics
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Undergrad Bohmian mechanics and special relativity
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Graduate Is the past in MWI unambiguous?
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Undergrad Is Entanglement Properly Defined in Bohr's Idea of Complementarity?
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Undergrad Macroscopicity and the measurement problem
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Graduate Does QED Originate from Non-Relativistic Systems?
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