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 Superposition status in the different interpretations.
- ftr
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Undergrad Do collapse interpretations respect conservation laws?
- greypilgrim
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Undergrad Bohm guiding field, electrons in a semiconductor "box"
- Spinnor
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Undergrad Photon Double Slit Experiment: Visualizing the Guiding Field
- Spinnor
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Undergrad How to derive Born's rule for arbitrary observables from Bohmian mechanics?
- A. Neumaier
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Graduate Is theory of measurement an oxymoron?
- Demystifier
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Graduate Many worlds vs modalism: do all quantum branches happen or only likely ones?
- Quanundrum
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Undergrad What is the POVM generalization of Born's rule for quantum measurements?
- A. Neumaier
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Graduate Schrodinger's Cat and The Universe
- entropy2information
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Undergrad New interpretation of quantum mechanics
- billllib
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Undergrad On the relation between physics and philosophy
- A. Neumaier
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Graduate The ontology problem of thermal interpretation
- Demystifier
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Graduate Is anything possible in the many worlds interpretation?
- IvicaPhysics
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Undergrad Did Schrödinger himself take his "Cat Experiment" seriously?
- Suekdccia
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Undergrad Can stochastic optimization derive quantum mechanics from spacetime?
- fresh_42
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Graduate What is von Neumann's branching of possible worlds?
- Suekdccia
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Undergrad Questions about QFT and the reality of subatomic particles
- Quantum Alchemy
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Undergrad Questions on the Bohmian mechanics interpretation for instrumentalists
- kurt101
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Undergrad Does MWI Agree on Measurement Apparatus Pointer?
- entropy1
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Undergrad Did de Broglie contribute later to pilot wave theory?
- Minnesota Joe
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Graduate The Combination Of Philosophy And Quantum Physics
- Chris Nimmons
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Undergrad Bohmian mechanics and special relativity
- kurt101
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Graduate Is the past in MWI unambiguous?
- entropy1
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Undergrad Is Entanglement Properly Defined in Bohr's Idea of Complementarity?
- bhobba
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Undergrad Macroscopicity and the measurement problem
- EPR
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Graduate Does QED Originate from Non-Relativistic Systems?
- A. Neumaier
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Graduate When does the wavefunction wavelength equal the De Broglie wavelength?
- etotheipi
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Undergrad Double slit mystery in relation to holography and the single slit?
- Zelebg
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Undergrad Does MWI require multiple real worlds or just multiple possible worlds?
- entropy1
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Undergrad Thermal interpretation and EPR experiment
- kurt101
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Undergrad Superposition of branches in MWI
- entropy1
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Undergrad Can we accurately determine the trajectory of an electron using a SG detector?
- entropy1
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Undergrad Why many worlds interpretation seems to require infinite universes
- Jmacquar
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Undergrad A Copenhagen solution of the black hole singularity problem
- Demystifier
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Graduate Why are the quantum fields considered ontological?
- ilper
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Undergrad New review on decoherence by Schlosshauer
- A. Neumaier
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Undergrad Interpretations of QM vs. statistical physics as an "interpretation"?
- Aidyan
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Undergrad Can MWI allow worlds where MWI itself doesn't apply?
- WWGD
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Graduate How does the thermal interpretation explain Stern-Gerlach?
- PeterDonis
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Undergrad Do observers create universes for every possible outcome in many worlds?
- Quantum Alchemy
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Undergrad Why can't there be a Universal Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics?
- Quantum Alchemy
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Undergrad How does Classical Physics explain Quantum Entanglement?
- Quantum Alchemy
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Undergrad Consistency of Bohmian mechanics
- Thors10
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Graduate Many Worlds and the Measurement of an Electron
- PhyCurious
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Undergrad Does the superposition have a weight?
- timmdeeg
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Undergrad Does EPR definitely rule out locality?
- greypilgrim
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Undergrad Orthogonal eigenvectors and measurement
- entropy1
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Against "interpretation" - Comments
- Demystifier
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Undergrad Danger for the Many-Worlds Interpretation?
- timmdeeg
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Graduate Many worlds, observer and Entropy
- Hawzhin Blanca
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Undergrad Can we copy information using reversible operations?
- zonde
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Graduate Is the Quantum/Classical Boundary the most important question in Physics?
- Quantum Alchemy
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Undergrad Have We Got What Bohr Thought Wrong
- bhobba
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Undergrad Is Einstein Causality Proven in Preferred Frame SR?
- entropy1
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Graduate Why didn't radioactive decay probabilities cause the same uproar as QM
- BruteForce1
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Graduate Counterfactual Definiteness and MWI in Wiki
- TunnelingthuWorlds
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Undergrad Is QM Deterministic in MWI and Time Reversible?
- entropy1
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Graduate Is wave collapse the same as a matter field state change?
- physical
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Graduate Does Bricmont-Goldstein-Hemmick's theorem prove QM must be nonlocal?
- Demystifier
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Insights What Are Bell States and Their Role in Spin Angular Momentum Conservation?
- RUTA
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Undergrad What exactly is Weizsäcker's ur-alternatives theory?
- Suekdccia
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Undergrad Sean Carroll podcast on many worlds interpretation
- pinball1970
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Undergrad Do Hidden Variables include sub-structures?
- hwpage
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Undergrad Necessity of Complex Numbers in Quantum Mechanics
- fresh_42
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Graduate Authorities in Science: High Reputation Journals and Books
- A. Neumaier
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Undergrad What did Omnès mean with this?
- Suekdccia
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Undergrad A simple explanation of the Born rule?
- jcap
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Graduate Does the many-worlds interpretation allow infinite nested universes at different scales?
- BrettSinclair
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Undergrad Thermal interpretation and Bell's inequality
- N88
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Undergrad Questions about ensemble interpretation of QM
- soothsayer
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Undergrad More on the thermal interpretation
- A. Neumaier
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Undergrad Does a measurement setup determine the reality of spin measurement outcomes?
- entropy1
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Graduate Weinberg on the measurement problem
- A. Neumaier
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Undergrad Polarization in Bohmian mechanics
- A. Neumaier
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Graduate The thermal interpretation and measurement
- vanhees71
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Graduate Improbability of the Many-Worlds Interpretation?
- CynicusRex
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Undergrad A variation of the Multiple World Interpretation
- Buzz Bloom
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Graduate Bohmian mechanics for instrumentalists and quantum measurement
- microsansfil
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Graduate Wigner's Friend and Incompatibility
- DarMM
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Undergrad Quantum Correlations without Many Worlds or Determinism
- msumm21
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Graduate Does Feynman's path integral ignore alternative histories?
- Suekdccia
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Graduate Does Bohmian mechanics imply the existence of parallel universes?
- Suekdccia
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Graduate A Realization of a Basic Wigner's Friend Type Experiment
- PeterDonis
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Undergrad "Knowledge" in Psi-Epistemic Interpretation Fundamental or Emergent?
- lucas_
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Undergrad What is really that density matrix in QM?
- Jamister
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Undergrad Why randomness means incomplete understanding
- A. Neumaier
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Graduate Is the concept of "wave function collapse" obsolete?
- Sophrosyne
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Graduate Could MWI create universes with fundamentally different physical laws?
- Suekdccia
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Undergrad Can the Many Worlds interpretation state the Born Rule as a postulate?
- JG11
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Graduate Born's rule for the QED electron violates causality
- A. Neumaier
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Undergrad What does it mean for QM to describe the real world?
- timmdeeg
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Undergrad Confusion about the thermal interpretation's account of measurement
- nicf
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Undergrad Numerical simulations in Bohmian mechanics
- A. Neumaier
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Undergrad A new insight from the Frauchiger and Renner paper affecting MWI
- Quanundrum
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Graduate Soft photons and the ETH interpretation of QM
- DrDu
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Undergrad How does QBism differ from Copenhagen interpretation?
- msumm21
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Undergrad Quantum Interpretations of this optical effect
- andresB
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Undergrad MWI -- Infinite number of worlds?
- entropy1
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Graduate How momentum measurement is defined in Pilot Wave interpretation?
- MichPod
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Undergrad Interpretation of QM in the Heisenberg Picture
- Federation 2005
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