Quantum Interpretations and Foundations Forum

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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Graduate Does Quantum Computing requires MWI?

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Graduate How would MWI explain delayed choice quantum eraser?

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Graduate Measurement problem and many worlds

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Graduate How does the Many-Worlds Interpretation handle the measurement problem?

  • Erik Ayer
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Graduate Status of Relativistic Bohmian Mechanics: What Open Questions Remain?

  • Morberticus
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Undergrad Many Worlds - Superdeterministic?

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Graduate Collapses, Quantum Jumps, and the Born interpretation

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Graduate Can string theory and Penrose interpretation coexist?

  • Nav
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Graduate Is there an interpretation independent outcome problem?

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Graduate What is a universal wavefunction in MWI?

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

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Graduate Problems with De Broglie's Wavelength

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

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Graduate Why does nothing happen in MWI?

  • Derek Potter
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Graduate Quantum Mechanics Interpretations?

  • Patriciamsv
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Graduate Copenhagen Interpretation of Sleep / Unseen brain?

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Graduate What exactly are interpretations of quantum mechanics?

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Graduate Aharonov-Bohm information propagation

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Graduate MWI or Bohmian mechanics for the arXiv:1305.0168 experiment

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Graduate Von Neumann QM Rules Equivalent to Bohm?

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Graduate Copenhegen interpretation or Many World Interpretation?

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Graduate Interpretation of a wave function collapse

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Graduate Odd delayed choice interferometer interpretations

  • Thomasphysicist
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Graduate Particles in dBB Interpretation

  • Feeble Wonk
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Graduate Everett's interpretations and Macroscopic quantum states

  • deneve
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Graduate Interpretation of the Heisenberg picture in QM

  • Sonderval
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Graduate QP Interpretation Hierarchy and Subclasses

  • Feeble Wonk
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Graduate The Assumptions of MWI Everett's Relative State Formulation

  • Derek Potter
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Graduate Do electrons retain identity after absorption beyond the Fourier sense?

  • jshrager
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Graduate Many Worlds Interpretation and act of measuring

  • Rodrigo Cesar
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Graduate How Does Qbism Affect Our Perception and Everyday Life?

  • Rodrigo Cesar
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Graduate Many Worlds and Quantum Field Theory

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Graduate De Broglie wavelength and frequency in wave packets

  • davidbenari
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Graduate Can MWI explain baryon asymmetry through branch selection?

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

  • nomadreid
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Graduate Binney's interpretation of Violation of Bell Inequalities

  • Pat71
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Graduate Impossibilty of hidden variables (Bohm, 1951)

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

  • ChAshutosh
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Graduate David Bohm Holographic Universe

  • Rajkovic
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Graduate Evidence for retrocausal interpretation of QM?

  • Quantumental
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Graduate Bohmian Mechanics and The Quantum Sweeper Effect

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Graduate Role of consciousness in quantum interpretations

  • Pete Hammand
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Graduate Virtual particles are just math (MWI and MUH)

  • tzimie
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Graduate Variant of Bohm Mechanics for Other Observables

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

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Graduate Quantum Decoherence and deBroglie-Bohm theory

  • ShayanJ
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Graduate What Distinguishes Neo-Copenhagenism from the Copenhagen Interpretation?

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

  • microsansfil
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Graduate Does Copenhagen interpretation allow particles in multiple places simultaneously?

  • Nick V
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Graduate Many World Interpretation and Personal Choice

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Graduate De Broglie-Bohm pilot wave theory

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

  • Thoros
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Graduate New Many Worlds objections, right/wrong ?

  • Quantumental
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Graduate Living Opponents of the Copenhagen Interpretation

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Graduate Interpretation for continuity equation with complex potential.

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Graduate Can MWI work without shared histories?

  • hankaaron
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Graduate How to talk about interpretations

  • tzimie
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Graduate Aharonov-Bohm Effect: Calculate fringe shift

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

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

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Graduate Can Bohmian mechanics work with neo-Lorentzian ether theory?

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Graduate Can two branches of the many-worlds interpretation be exactly identical?

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Graduate Can many-worlds branching explain cosmic inflation or dark energy?

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Graduate Bohmian determinism for aspects other than position?

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Graduate Unified model for de Broglie wavelength in photons and electrons

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

  • hankaaron
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Graduate Many Worlds proved inconsistent?

  • Demystifier
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Graduate Double Slit Experiment Misinterpretation

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

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

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Graduate Looking for a hard determinism type of QM interpretation

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

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

  • bcrowell
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Graduate Revisiting an Old Interpretation of QM

  • jedishrfu
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Graduate Many-worlds, Schroedinger, Heisenberg pictures

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Graduate De Broglie theory and relativity

  • PhilDSP
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Graduate Probability interpretation question

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

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Graduate Generalized statistical interpretation

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Graduate Mechanistic explanation of de Broglie wavelength

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

  • craigi
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Graduate Is something wrong with statistical interpretation of QM?

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Graduate A question regarding the Copenhagen interpretation.

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Graduate Bohm trajectories and protective measurements?

  • bohm2
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Graduate Quantum Bayesian Interpretation of QM

  • Salman2
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Graduate What are De Broglie Waves and Their Role in Understanding Particle Behavior?

  • SplinterCell
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Graduate Deriving the statistical interpretation from Schrodinger's equation?

  • pantheid
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Graduate Experiments without Interpretations

  • Kainui
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Graduate Bogoliubov transformation / Interpretation of diagonalized Hamiltonian

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Graduate De Broglie dynamics fine/Bohmian dynamics untenable?

  • bohm2
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Graduate Thoughts on Bohmian Mechanics?

  • pantheid
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Graduate Quantum mechanics interpretations: Bell, decoherence, many-worlds and recent experiments

  • Lapidus
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Graduate Gibbs paradox in the Bohmian interpretation

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Graduate The interpretation of noether currents in scalar QED

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Graduate Many Worlds and conservation of energy

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Graduate Copenhagen Interpretation vs Instrumentalism

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Graduate Many-Worlds, Deriving the Born Rule?

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Graduate Interpretation of photon interference

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Graduate Zurek's existential interpretation

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Graduate Must position be continuous in Bohmian mechanics?

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