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Graduate Is there an interpretation independent outcome problem?

Derek Potter
Jul 31, 2015 · Replies 45 · Aug 6, 2015

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Graduate What is a universal wavefunction in MWI?

Nav
Aug 6, 2015 · Replies 2 · Aug 6, 2015

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Graduate What are the 'warts' of interpretations in QT?

Feeble Wonk
Aug 5, 2015 · Replies 6 · Aug 5, 2015

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Graduate Problems with De Broglie's Wavelength

Dick Niggle
May 29, 2015 · Replies 28 · Aug 1, 2015

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Graduate Copenhagen - What qualifies as "measurement" and "observer"?

Jesayntly
Jul 20, 2015 · Replies 64 · Jul 26, 2015

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Graduate Why does nothing happen in MWI?

Derek Potter
Jul 11, 2015 · Replies 162 · Jul 17, 2015

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Graduate Quantum Mechanics Interpretations?

Patriciamsv
Jul 9, 2013 · Replies 15 · Jul 17, 2015

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Graduate Copenhagen Interpretation of Sleep / Unseen brain?

1977ub
Jul 6, 2015 · Replies 122 · Jul 16, 2015

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Graduate What exactly are interpretations of quantum mechanics?

member 529879
Jun 5, 2015 · Replies 38 · Jul 13, 2015

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Graduate Aharonov-Bohm information propagation

ddd123
Jun 24, 2015 · Replies 2 · Jun 25, 2015

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Graduate MWI or Bohm interpretation of this....

andresB
Jun 22, 2015 · Replies 3 · Jun 23, 2015

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Graduate Von Neumann QM Rules Equivalent to Bohm?

stevendaryl
Jun 1, 2015 · Replies 235 · Jun 17, 2015

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Graduate Copenhegen interpretation or Many World Interpretation?

backward
May 29, 2013 · Replies 31 · Jun 17, 2015

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Graduate Interpretation of a wave function collapse

Happiness
Jun 13, 2015 · Replies 1 · Jun 14, 2015

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Graduate Odd delayed choice interferometer interpretations

Thomasphysicist
Jun 11, 2015 · Replies 10 · Jun 11, 2015

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Graduate Particles in dBB Interpretation

Feeble Wonk
Jun 9, 2015 · Replies 14 · Jun 11, 2015

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Graduate Everett's interpretations and Macroscopic quantum states

deneve
Jun 4, 2015 · Replies 10 · Jun 7, 2015

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Graduate Interpretation of the Heisenberg picture in QM

Sonderval
May 29, 2015 · Replies 40 · Jun 2, 2015

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Graduate QP Interpretation Hierarchy and Subclasses

Feeble Wonk
May 26, 2015 · Replies 24 · May 30, 2015

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Graduate The Assumptions of MWI Everett's Relative State Formulation

Derek Potter
May 25, 2015 · Replies 27 · May 28, 2015

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Graduate What Is the True Nature of Electrons According to de Broglie's Theory?

jshrager
May 7, 2015 · Replies 4 · May 8, 2015

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Graduate Many Worlds Interpretation and act of measuring

Rodrigo Cesar
Apr 2, 2015 · Replies 464 · Apr 27, 2015

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Graduate How Does Qbism Affect Our Perception and Everyday Life?

Rodrigo Cesar
Apr 12, 2015 · Replies 2 · Apr 13, 2015

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Graduate Many Worlds and Quantum Field Theory

bhobba
Apr 10, 2015 · Replies 3 · Apr 10, 2015

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Graduate Question about the De Broglie Hypothesis

davidbenari
Apr 3, 2015 · Replies 31 · Apr 8, 2015

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Graduate Baryon Asymmetry explained by MWI

Galap
Apr 1, 2015 · Replies 9 · Apr 2, 2015

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Graduate What is the correct interpretation of a qubit with v= 0.6|0> + 0.8|1>?

nomadreid
Mar 16, 2015 · Replies 7 · Mar 17, 2015

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Graduate Binney's interpretation of Violation of Bell Inequalities

Pat71
Feb 22, 2015 · Replies 153 · Mar 11, 2015

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Graduate Impossibilty of hidden variables (Bohm, 1951)

atyy
Feb 11, 2015 · Replies 59 · Mar 9, 2015

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Graduate What is the relationship between De Broglie frequency and energy in QM and QFT?

ChAshutosh
Feb 24, 2015 · Replies 8 · Feb 24, 2015

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Graduate David Bohm Holographic Universe

Rajkovic
Feb 18, 2015 · Replies 6 · Feb 21, 2015

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Graduate Evidence for retrocausal interpretation of QM?

Quantumental
Feb 11, 2015 · Replies 2 · Feb 18, 2015

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Graduate Bohmian Mechanics and The Quantum Sweeper Effect

bohm2
Feb 15, 2015 · Replies 3 · Feb 16, 2015

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Graduate Interpretations of QP: How Can Consciousness Be Eliminated from Any System?

Pete Hammand
Jan 17, 2015 · Replies 30 · Jan 25, 2015

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Graduate Virtual particles are just math (MWI and MUH)

tzimie
Jan 10, 2015 · Replies 9 · Jan 11, 2015

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Graduate Variant of Bohm Mechanics for Other Observables

stevendaryl
Jan 7, 2015 · Replies 4 · Jan 9, 2015

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Graduate De broglie's explanation of bohr's second postulate

gracy
Jan 4, 2015 · Replies 2 · Jan 4, 2015

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Graduate Quantum Decoherence and deBroglie-Bohm theory

ShayanJ
Dec 25, 2014 · Replies 40 · Dec 30, 2014

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Graduate What Distinguishes Neo-Copenhagenism from the Copenhagen Interpretation?

Nick V
Dec 28, 2014 · Replies 4 · Dec 28, 2014

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Graduate [QM Interpretation]QBism puts the scientist back into scienc

microsansfil
Dec 24, 2014 · Replies 12 · Dec 26, 2014

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Graduate Question about copenhagen interpretation

Nick V
Dec 23, 2014 · Replies 10 · Dec 24, 2014

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Graduate Many World Interpretation and Personal Choice

Mirrorworld
Dec 7, 2014 · Replies 4 · Dec 7, 2014

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Graduate De Broglie-Bohm pilot wave theory

Sarvesh Kurane
Nov 30, 2014 · Replies 8 · Dec 1, 2014

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Graduate Why is the Poincare lemma important in understanding the Aharanov-Bohm effect?

Thoros
Nov 23, 2014 · Replies 1 · Nov 23, 2014

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Graduate New Many Worlds objections, right/wrong ?

Quantumental
Nov 13, 2014 · Replies 12 · Nov 18, 2014

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Graduate Living Opponents of the Copenhagen Interpretation

jbmolineux
Nov 10, 2014 · Replies 121 · Nov 16, 2014

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Graduate Interpretation for continuity equation with complex potential.

peripatein
Nov 15, 2014 · Replies 3 · Nov 16, 2014

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Graduate Can MWI work without shared histories?

hankaaron
Oct 28, 2014 · Replies 13 · Nov 3, 2014

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Graduate How to talk about interpretations

tzimie
Oct 13, 2014 · Replies 62 · Oct 27, 2014

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Graduate Aharonov-Bohm Effect: Calculate fringe shift

blankvin
Oct 16, 2014 · Replies 1 · Oct 17, 2014

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Graduate What is De-Broglie's interpretation and how does it relate to DBB theory?

bhobba
Oct 11, 2014 · Replies 153 · Oct 12, 2014

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Graduate What waves in wave-particle duality according to de Broglie

liquidspacetime
Oct 9, 2014 · Replies 12 · Oct 9, 2014

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Graduate Bohmian Mechanics meets Neo-Lorentzian Ether Theory?

nosepot
Sep 28, 2014 · Replies 4 · Sep 29, 2014

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Graduate Possible webpage title: Can Two Universes Be Exactly the Same in MWI?

Laurelion
Sep 25, 2014 · Replies 1 · Sep 26, 2014

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Graduate Many-Worlds, Inflation & Dark Energy

tionis
Sep 15, 2014 · Replies 9 · Sep 16, 2014

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Graduate Bohmian determinism for aspects other than position?

georgir
Sep 15, 2014 · Replies 4 · Sep 15, 2014

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Graduate De Broglie wavelength - model for comparing photons and electrons

HJ Farnsworth
Sep 4, 2014 · Replies 1 · Sep 5, 2014

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Graduate QBism - Is it an extension of "The Monty Hall Problem"?

hankaaron
Aug 29, 2014 · Replies 50 · Aug 31, 2014

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Graduate Many Worlds proved inconsistent?

Demystifier
Aug 27, 2014 · Replies 15 · Aug 28, 2014

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Graduate Double Slit Experiment Misinterpretation

aademarco
Aug 13, 2014 · Replies 3 · Aug 13, 2014

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Graduate What's the Flaw in De Broglie's Derivation of Wave-Particle Duality?

americast
Aug 5, 2014 · Replies 1 · Aug 5, 2014

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Graduate Can the Born Rule Be Derived in the Many Worlds Interpretation?

stevendaryl
Jul 24, 2014 · Replies 154 · Aug 2, 2014

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Graduate Looking for a hard determinism type of QM interpretation

trendal
Jul 18, 2014 · Replies 47 · Jul 22, 2014

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Graduate How do Feynman's many paths and Many-worlds interpretation differ?

nomadreid
Jul 17, 2014 · Replies 9 · Jul 19, 2014

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Graduate How to rule out a classical interpretation for negative-energy states?

bcrowell
Jul 17, 2014 · Replies 23 · Jul 18, 2014

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Graduate Revisiting an Old Interpretation of QM

jedishrfu
Jul 10, 2014 · Replies 4 · Jul 10, 2014

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Graduate Many-worlds, Schroedinger, Heisenberg pictures

atyy
Jul 4, 2014 · Replies 5 · Jul 5, 2014

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Graduate De Broglie theory and relativity

PhilDSP
Jun 12, 2014 · Replies 9 · Jun 15, 2014

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Graduate Probability interpretation question

arierreF
May 17, 2014 · Replies 6 · May 17, 2014

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Graduate De Broglie wavelength computable by just fixing speed of light ?

xortdsc
May 3, 2014 · Replies 2 · May 3, 2014

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Graduate Generalized statistical interpretation

lkijmj
Apr 30, 2014 · Replies 11 · May 2, 2014

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Graduate Mechanistic explanation of de Broglie wavelength

alexepascual
Apr 22, 2014 · Replies 7 · Apr 25, 2014

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Graduate Many Worlds, Indistinguishability, Pascal's Triangle and the Gaussian

craigi
Mar 7, 2014 · Replies 7 · Mar 8, 2014

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Graduate Is something wrong with statistical interpretation of QM?

universal_101
Feb 19, 2014 · Replies 52 · Feb 22, 2014

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Graduate A question regarding the Copenhagen interpretation.

pondzo
Jan 29, 2014 · Replies 108 · Feb 13, 2014

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Graduate Bohm trajectories and protective measurements?

bohm2
Sep 10, 2012 · Replies 78 · Feb 8, 2014

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Graduate Quantum Bayesian Interpretation of QM

Salman2
May 19, 2013 · Replies 52 · Feb 7, 2014

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Graduate What are De Broglie Waves and Their Role in Understanding Particle Behavior?

SplinterCell
Feb 2, 2014 · Replies 1 · Feb 2, 2014

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Graduate Deriving the statistical interpretation from Schrodinger's equation?

pantheid
Jan 14, 2014 · Replies 29 · Jan 16, 2014

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Graduate Experiments without Interpretations

Kainui
Jan 9, 2014 · Replies 5 · Jan 9, 2014

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Graduate Bogoliubov transformation / Interpretation of diagonalized Hamiltonian

Abigale
Jan 8, 2014 · Replies 1 · Jan 8, 2014

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Graduate De Broglie dynamics fine/Bohmian dynamics untenable?

bohm2
Jun 9, 2013 · Replies 13 · Jan 6, 2014

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Graduate Thoughts on Bohmian Mechanics?

pantheid
Dec 27, 2013 · Replies 15 · Dec 30, 2013

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Graduate Where Can I Find Comprehensive Notes on Quantum Mechanics Interpretations?

Lapidus
Dec 21, 2013 · Replies 61 · Dec 29, 2013

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Graduate Gibbs paradox in the Bohmian interpretation

atyy
Nov 19, 2013 · Replies 8 · Dec 20, 2013

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Graduate The interpretation of noether currents in scalar QED

karlzr
Dec 16, 2013 · Replies 3 · Dec 17, 2013

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Graduate Many Worlds and conservation of energy

tom.stoer
Dec 14, 2013 · Replies 20 · Dec 16, 2013

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Graduate Copenhagen Interpretation vs Instrumentalism

Annihilator
Dec 14, 2013 · Replies 16 · Dec 15, 2013

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Graduate Many-Worlds, Deriving the Born Rule?

MHuiq
Dec 7, 2013 · Replies 60 · Dec 13, 2013

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Graduate Interpretation of photon interference

zonde
Dec 5, 2013 · Replies 3 · Dec 5, 2013

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Graduate Zurek's existential interpretation

naima
Nov 24, 2013 · Replies 23 · Nov 27, 2013

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Graduate Must position be continuous in Bohmian mechanics?

atyy
Nov 20, 2013 · Replies 13 · Nov 25, 2013

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Graduate Quantum Zeno effect rules out many-worlds?

greypilgrim
Oct 16, 2013 · Replies 30 · Nov 19, 2013

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Graduate Ballentine's Ensemble Interpretation Of QM

bhobba
Oct 24, 2011 · Replies 312 · Nov 16, 2013

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Graduate Legget's inequality and Bohmian mechanics

bohm2
Nov 13, 2013 · Replies 6 · Nov 15, 2013

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Graduate What Interpretation/Model of QM Predicts Bell Inequality Violations ?

Point Conception
Nov 13, 2013 · Replies 5 · Nov 14, 2013

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Graduate Arahnov - Bohm effect and U(1) bundles

lavinia
Nov 10, 2013 · Replies 7 · Nov 12, 2013

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Graduate Many-worlds: When does the universe split?

greypilgrim
Oct 16, 2013 · Replies 146 · Oct 28, 2013

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Graduate Minimal no collapse interpretation

meBigGuy
Oct 23, 2013 · Replies 6 · Oct 26, 2013

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Graduate Wikipedia comparison of interpretations of QM

greypilgrim
Oct 16, 2013 · Replies 7 · Oct 17, 2013

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Discuss the foundations of Quantum Mechanics as a theory structure and different published interpretations of Quantum Mechanics.

Interpretations of quantum mechanics are a way to explain how the mathematical theory of quantum mechanics "corresponds" to reality.

These discussions present unique challenges since they deal with matters for which there is not an established "right" answer that has been confirmed by experiment and is generally accepted by scientists in the field. As a result, such discussions do not usually reach a fairly quick resolution, and often do not reach a resolution at all.

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