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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Graduate Understanding Barandes' microscopic theory of causality
Graduate Slit experiment follow up experimentation
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Graduate Double Slit Experiment, Testing the Test
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Graduate What causes electrons to move in wave form?
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Graduate Photon Amplitude: Is It Right or Wrong?
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Graduate Spinning Particles of 1/2 Integer Spin: Explained
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Graduate Magnetic quantum number and spin
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Graduate Quantum Physics take on Free-will
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Graduate Bound state of the delta function potential.
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Graduate Derivation of reflection/transmission coefficients
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Graduate Ballentine on the quantum Zeno paradox
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Graduate Zee's QFT book: equal time propagator
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Graduate Double Slit Exp: Electron 1 at a Time, Detector Not Detecting
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Graduate A question re. 'single-particle' states
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Graduate Is There a Mistake in the Spin Quantum Paradox Calculation?
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Graduate Feynman propagator and particle uniqueness
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Graduate What is the Lagrangian of interaction of photon and spin zero scalar?
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Graduate Photon vs other fundamental particles - decoherence
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Graduate 'Relativistic Quantum Chemistry' - Say whut?
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Graduate Understanding Electron Spin and its Effect on Protons
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Graduate Can atoms/ ions behave quantum mechanically at biofriendly temperature
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Graduate Can a Cup of Water Hold Infinite Quantum Worlds?
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Graduate Decoherence and Determinism: Understanding the Role of Randomness in Proper Mix
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Graduate Coordinates and casimir effect
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Graduate Geometry of the atomic structure
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Graduate Why Does the Stern-Gerlach Experiment Only Have a Gradient in the Z Direction?
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High School Photon Collisions: Do They Bounce or Pass Through?
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Graduate Is Max Planck law true for all electromagnetic waves?
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Graduate Is schwarzschild radius, where the whormholes could be made?
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Graduate Macro Superposition: Does Size Matter?
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Graduate What makes spin different from classical angular momentum and magnetic moment?
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Graduate Timing in entanglement investigations
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Graduate Quantum Physics and Lack of Measurement
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Graduate Quantum tunnelling - what is real?
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Graduate Understanding Joos Equations and Decoherence in Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate The jewel found in Quantum mechanics?
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Graduate Gravity - a non-physical entity
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Graduate How Is the Particle Density Operator Defined?
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Graduate How does the theory of general relativity explain gravity?
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Graduate Question on derivatives of Hermitian conjugate scalar fields
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Graduate Questioning assumptions behind Bell's and related theorems
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Graduate Space-time continuity as an assumption in quantum theory
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Graduate What does QM hint about time-space?
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Undergrad Why Do Electrons in Covalent Bonds Not Remain Stationary?
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Graduate A problem in deriving the interaction field equation for photons
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Graduate Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle Derivation
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Graduate The Human Double Slit Experiment
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Graduate QFT Time Ordering: Solve Mystery of Operator Rewriting
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Graduate Understanding POVM Measurement on Qubit: Placing Detectors & Neumark Extension
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Graduate Electron Probability of being at an location
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Graduate Eigenstate and real space representation
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Graduate Uncovering the Initial Conditions of Electrons in the Ives-Stillwell Experiment
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Graduate Parity is Discrete Transformation?
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Undergrad Can a Small YBa2Cu3O7 Disk Navigate a Ring Magnet Track in Quantum Levitation?
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Graduate Polarity in Atoms: Understanding Electron Movement in Covalent Bonds
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Graduate Pauli exclusion principle at distance
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Graduate Quantum Physics: Can We Understand How It Happens?
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Graduate Why do fermions have 1/2-integer spins?
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Graduate How to understand operators representing observables are Hermitian?
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Graduate Question about Quantum Effective Action
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Graduate Momentum operator as differentiation of position vector
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Graduate Superposition and entanglement
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Graduate Does the environment cause wave function collapse
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High School Double slit experiment for school
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Graduate Question about relativistic quantum hawking radiation.
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Graduate Why do we need wormholes to describe entanglement?
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Graduate Understanding Time Ordering Operator in Imaginary Time Formalism
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Graduate Gradient of product of wave functions
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Undergrad Particle in a box Schrodinger equation
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Graduate Fundamental difference between quantum physics and classical physics
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Graduate Partition function as a description of the system
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Graduate Evidence that Maldacena’s hologram conjecture is true
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Graduate Is Gravity Responsible for Breaking Quantum Entanglement?
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Graduate Does position operator have eigen wave function?
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Graduate Importance of the observer in double slit experiment and entanglement
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Graduate My First Post & A Question On Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate The Wave Function Of The Universe
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Graduate Spherical harmonics and angular momentum operators
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Graduate What is the significance of commutative operators in quantum mechanics?
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Graduate How does graphene demonstrate quantum tunneling?
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Graduate Creating of Wormhole during entanglement
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Graduate What is the Asymptotic Behavior of the Propagator in QFT?
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What is the Bipolar coordinate system used for in the DSM manual?
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Graduate A particle in 1D potential well
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Graduate Is there a frequency eigenstate for light?
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Graduate Building a Quantum Levitation device
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Graduate Can Quantum Fluctuations Create Friction in Empty Space?
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Graduate Fermionic Operator Equation Derivation Troubleshooting
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Graduate What Does the Spin-0 State Mean for Photons?
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Graduate Why do we get an interference pattern in a double slit experiment?
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Graduate Device to measure Planck's constant
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Graduate What Does <S> Mean in Spin Measurement?
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Graduate Spectral Function: Concluding Delta, Physical Interpretation, Imaginary Part
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Graduate Uncovering the Flaws of Born Inequality: A Deeper Look into Quantum Particles
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Graduate Lagrangian and quantum field theory
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Graduate Solving Schroedinger Eqn: Interpreting Separation Constant G as Energy
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Graduate Do photons interact with gravitons?
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Graduate Understanding Electron Diffraction: Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
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Graduate Time evolution with time dependent Hamiltonians
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Graduate Effect of Shielding on Electron Penetration
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Graduate Entanglement vs space-time continuum
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