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Graduate Gravity and the double slit experiment

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Undergrad A question about the double slit experiment

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Undergrad Uncertainty principle using 2 detectors

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Graduate Question about the double-slit experiment

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Graduate Dimension of Rays in Hilbert Space

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Graduate Schroedinger's cat from the cat's point of view

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Graduate The Holographic Universe: Dividing Reality into Bits

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Graduate Shortest wavelenght emmited by a black body

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Graduate Goldstone boson state, conserved current

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Graduate Interaction between Neutrons/Neutrinos

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Graduate Sakurai page 54: Is this a Taylor expansion?

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Graduate Delayed Choice Quantum Eraser Question

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Graduate Precise measurements in Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate Dimensional regularization and renormalization scale.

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Graduate What’s wrong with this EPR-Bell FTL Gedankenexperiment?

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Graduate Where does the energy come from?

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Graduate Can Free Fundamental Particles Absorb Photons?

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Graduate Double slit experiment with electrons

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Graduate What is the true nature of an atom and how can we visualize it?

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Graduate RG equation and invariance of the vertex function under scaling(Ryder)

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Graduate Quantum Mechanical Operators - A Question Or Two

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Graduate Understanding the Landau Pole Phenomenon in Quantum Field Theory

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Graduate Why is weak force short range action?

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Graduate Why don't quantum fluctuations cause us to fall through the floor?

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Graduate Tensor coupling and 6j/9j symbols

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Graduate What is the nature of sound from the quantum perspective?

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Winning Nobel Prize: Friend's Experiment to Prove Electron Not a Particle

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Graduate Modern Quantum Mechanics: J.J. Sakurai's eq. (1.7.31) Explained

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Graduate Forming the most general two qubit entangled state & parametrizing it.

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Graduate Antiparticles identical in qft

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Graduate Double-slit interference pattern measurement with entangled photons

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Undergrad Does a photon have energy if its mass is 0?

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Graduate Transmission and Reflection on a potential step

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Graduate What is the Connection Between Antiparticles and Vacuum in Physics?

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Graduate Derivation of Spin-orbit Coupling

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Graduate Para / Ortho Hydrogen (H2) Spins

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Graduate What is the difference between anti-particle & exotic matter

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Graduate Why wouldn't this experiment allow superluminal communication?

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Graduate Sakurai : Approximations in the construction of Quantum theory

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Graduate Is single particle interference explainable via entanglement?

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Graduate Unraveling the Mysteries of Intensity vs Wavelength

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Graduate Complete set of stationary solutions

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Graduate Product of three gamma matrices

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Graduate Polarization of photon-Peskin and Schroeder

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Undergrad Two general questions about wave functions

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Graduate Harmonic Oscillator: Energy Explained

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High School Uncertanity Principle in Macrocosm

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Graduate Rotation operator quantum mechanics

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Graduate Counterterms Feynman Rules Derivation

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Graduate Quantum Eraser Interference Patterns

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Graduate Wigners Theorem And Linerarity

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Graduate Nuclear charge and atomic orbitals

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Graduate Virtual photons and long range force carrier

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Graduate What does local causality mean?

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Graduate Heisenburgs Uncertainty Principle in a narrow tube?

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Graduate Is CPT-Invariance Sufficient for Lorentz Covariance and Locality?

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Graduate Planck's radiation law: Act of desperation

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Graduate Quantum mechanics probability

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Graduate Representation of Lorentz group and spinors (in Peskin page 38)

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Graduate What is the quantum mechanics behind blackbody radiation?

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Graduate What is the quantum of an electromagnetic wave?

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Graduate Two qubit state multiplication

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Graduate Wigner function of two orthogonal states: quantum harmonic oscillator

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Graduate How Can Intuitive Approaches Enhance Quantum Operator Derivation?

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Graduate Do Photons Actually Move at the Speed of Light?

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Graduate Seeing colors: photons vs waves

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Graduate Partial wave analysis - incoming/outgoing?

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Undergrad Direction of reflected/refracted light

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Graduate Is a Quantum Trapped Superconductor Inside a Vacuum the Ideal Simple Machine?

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Graduate Path integral and gaussian integral

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Graduate Separation of variables to solve Schrodinger equations

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Graduate Variational method, is the wavefunction the best for all

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Undergrad Photon Wavelength: Particle or Wave?

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Graduate Physical mass in a quantum field theory

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Graduate Questioning Neil Turok's Claim on Quantum Information

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Graduate Hamiltonian eigenstate problem

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Graduate Does mass bend the Higgs field as well?

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High School Double Slit & Compton: Understanding the Connection

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Graduate How to find the ground state of He atom

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Graduate Does QFT respect conservation of angular momentum?

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Graduate What is the meaning of Wave function?

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Undergrad Calculating Uncertainty in Position for Scientists

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Graduate Is Uncertainty in Velocity Equal to the Velocity Itself?

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Graduate How photons and static em feilds work

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Graduate Why electrons can have only 2 spin orientations?

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Graduate Imaginary momentum and virtual particles

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Undergrad Can Photons Have Mass? Debate & Answer

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Graduate Excitation of electrons in atoms

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Graduate Why are QM wave functions complex?

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High School Can someone explain degeneracy pressure in simple terms?

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Graduate Should the speed of light be slightly uncertain?

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Graduate Is there a connection between spinors and isotropic vectors in QM and QFT?

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Graduate Paraparticles and Parastatistics

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Graduate When is classical mechanics valid for describing motion of atoms?

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Graduate 9j symbol expansion in 6j symbols

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Graduate Is [x,p]=i quantum mechanical?

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Graduate Mistake in proof regarding degeneracy property

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Graduate Energy of interacting particle and time evolution of p(x)

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Graduate Why does a deuteron nucleus have spin 1? Hydrogen spin 1/2?

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Graduate What is the quantum mechanics descriptions for a plasma radiation

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