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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Graduate How valid is the indivisible interpretation of quantum mechanics?
Graduate Is there any theoretical way to have physics work not like quantum mechanics?
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Graduate Does quantum entanglement allow information to travel faster than light?
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Graduate What Occurs When an Atom's Nucleus Disappears?
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Graduate Does the Quantization of Space-Time Imply a Finite Number of Spatial Locations?
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Graduate Why do they only consider S-matrix in QFT?
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Graduate Perhaps we do see quantum behavior at the macroscopic scale
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Graduate Are Buckyballs Entangled in Double Slit Experiments?
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Undergrad What is a negative magnetic moment?
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Graduate Phase shift of tunneling particle
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Graduate Question about Orbitals in an Atom
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Graduate Entanglement in delayed choice quantum eraser (DCQE)
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Graduate Need help for solving an operator equation
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Graduate QED and light traveling in straight lines
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Graduate What is the objective of renormalization group theory?
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Graduate Time-dependant perturbation theory & transitions
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Graduate HUP Greeting: Meaning & Opinions
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Graduate Is the electron's energy changed when the infinite potential wall moves?
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Graduate A question about the minimal vertex possible
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Graduate I really need a definitive answer to the HUP/vacuum/pair production problem.
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Graduate Commutative operators and obserables
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Graduate Feynman paths and double slit experiment
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Graduate A query on the (old) motivation for renormalizable theories
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Undergrad Dual Vector Space: Simple Explanation
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Graduate Cluster radioactivity- want to know more?
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Undergrad Black Body Radiation & how it works?
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Graduate 'Quantum grains' smaller than 'Planck length'
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Graduate Recommended Texts for Self-Studying QFT?
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High School Hi everybody,this is my first post. So sorry for the possible
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Graduate Space/time expansion and quantum world
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Graduate Can the Mach-Zehnder interferometer be used as a which-way detector for photons?
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Graduate Klein-Gordon field is spin-0: really?
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Graduate Spin Angular Momentum Conservation in the Stern-Gerlach Experiment
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Graduate How does Quantum Physics solve the ultraviolet catastrophe?
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Undergrad What is the Correct Formula for Calculating Angular Momentum in Bohr's Theory?
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Graduate Questions about Schrodinger's equation?
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Graduate Rotation group representation and pauli matrices
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Graduate Eigenvalues of Hermitian opertors
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Graduate Nuetron Interferometry in Ballentine
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Graduate Thoughts on realistic model of electon Zitterbewegung
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Graduate Quantum entanglement and Two slit experiment
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Graduate Electron diffraction diameter measurement
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Graduate Fermat's Principle Explained by Feynman
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Undergrad Salt Water Swimming Pool Question.
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Graduate Unceartianity and virtual pions.
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Graduate Photon flight times and the uncertainty principle
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Graduate Phase shift upon external reflection
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Graduate So, I know that spin is very important in quantum mechanics/elementary
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Graduate Time invariance of Schrodinger equation
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Graduate Vector Representations of Quantum States
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Graduate A question on Virtual Photons, and QED
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Graduate First Quantum Computer now Commerical?
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Graduate A question about wave function
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Graduate States of Composite Systems, p. 216: Ballentine
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Graduate Ryder QFT 2nd ed. page 341 misprint?
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Graduate Double-Slit time reversal leads to fractal multiple universe theory?
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Graduate Relativistic corrections to Schrodinger's equation
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Graduate Quantum phenomena as emergent property in networked computer simulation?
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Graduate Can Quantum Mechanics Be Taught Without Relying on Representations?
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Would you buy a quantum table?
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Graduate How Do Dirac Delta Functions Relate to Quantum Mechanics and Eigenvalues?
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Graduate Hartle: QM of Individual Systems (1968)
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Graduate Half-Integer Spin: Explaining Discontinuity's Lack of Impact
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Graduate Solving the Paradox of Quantum Mechanics & Special Relativity
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Graduate Learning Spherical Harmonics & Angular Momentum
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Graduate How to calculate Clebsch-Gordon coefficients
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Graduate Quantum Entanglement: Explaining Distance Effects
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Graduate Tunneling effect or barrier penetrability
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Graduate Can A White Photon Exist?not so easy to Answer
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Graduate Is Quantum Entanglement Verifiable and Misrepresented in Mainstream Media?
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Does Quantum Mechanics embrace/perpetuate eastern religions?
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Graduate What maths in preparation for quantum mechanics
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Graduate Interaction Picture: Explaining H = H_o + H_int
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Graduate Quantum Physics: Theory of Entanglement
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Graduate Klien Gordon Equation solution under Lorentz transformation
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Graduate What is the difference between classical and quantum law?
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Graduate About cosmological quantum rectangular barrier potential
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Graduate What are the key theorems on the mathematics of symmetries in quantum mechanics?
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Graduate Can Quantum Error Correction Revolutionize Computing?
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Graduate Deriving Moseley's Law Using QM/QFT
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Graduate Quantum mechanics and electrons.
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Graduate Do Quantum Particles Have Physical Volume or Are They Just Points of Energy?
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Graduate How we see things, relating to Crystal field theory.
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Graduate Bose-Einstein condensate and ions spin
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Graduate Question about interacting fields
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Graduate So at what direction do Quarks spin ?
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Graduate Solving schrodinger equation for quarkonium
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Graduate Understanding the Hellman-Feynman Theorem
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Graduate My derivation of the Shrodinger Equation
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Graduate Why the electromagn potential obeys Callan-Symazik equa like Green Function?
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Graduate Does quantum mechanics say everything is random?
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Graduate Srednicki 43.10: Minus Sign Explained
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Graduate Information's relation to Time and Mass
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Graduate Things that self collapse or self measure
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Graduate The role of probability in Quantum Physics
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Undergrad Photoelectric Effect: Insufficient Energy Collision
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Graduate Entanglement and decoherence: middle-brow treatment?
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Graduate Spin of a proton from its parts.
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Graduate The role of probability in Quantum Physics
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Graduate Quantum view of gravitational waves
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Graduate Calculation of particle life span
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