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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Graduate Sidney Coleman's opinion on interpretation in his Dirac lecture
High School Is this QM learning pathway sound?
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High School Flashing In And Out of Existence?
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High School What's the confidence level of quantum to macro behavior?
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High School Has the existence of Hilbert Space been proven 100%?
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High School Bohr vs Einstein: is the Moon there when we are not looking?
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High School Photon and half-silvered mirror
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High School If all particles were different sizes, would the speed of light stay the same
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High School Looking for Wilhelm Wien's original paper
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High School Photoelectric Effect under cutoff frequency
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High School What's an electron doing between interactions?
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High School Thought experiment violates Heisenberg? (of course not)
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High School Uncovering the Truth: Non-Dualistic Particles Revealed
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High School How does entanglement work for spin states?
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High School What is quantum equation of single photon?
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High School Mixed states V superposition V linear combinations?
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High School What causes reflection to occur in highly absorptive materials?
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High School Communication with no latency using quantum entanglement
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High School Question: Can State Only Be Formulated Relating to Observable?
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High School How Does Neutral Pion Decay Conform to Spin Conservation?
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High School Where Do Quantum Gravity and Cosomology Fit in Physics?
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High School How to compare camera film ISO number to quantum efficiency?
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High School Is quantification random or pseudo-random?
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High School Does retrocausality only apply to subatomic particles?
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High School Quantum to Classical Particles: Understanding the Entropy Limit
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High School Does Electromagnetic wave qualifies to become a particle?
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High School Electron arrangement and ionisation energy
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High School A question of timing in a light bulb
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High School What counts as observer effect?
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High School What groundbreaking insights can quantum physics research on the ISS reveal?
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High School Begining of time, cause and effect and quantum randomness
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High School Femions to Bosons: The Future of Electronics
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High School Explain Photoelectric Effect: Potential, Formula & Voltage
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High School Number of entangled particles in nature
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High School Can entanglement be broken easily
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High School What is Quantum Statistical Mechanics?
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High School So the holographic principle doesn't have much evidence?
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High School Interference patterns of electrons vs. photons
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High School Electrons and ions -- how long can they exist apart?
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High School Does quantum mechanics explain why subatomic particles behave the way they do?
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High School Why do the 4 forces have the strength that they do?
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High School How Do Virtual Photons Mediate Forces in Quantum Electrodynamics?
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High School Do probabilities for entangled polarization states add up to one?
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High School Faster than light communication via entanglement?
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High School The sticky elactic in the Bloch sphere
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High School Do Photons Contribute to the Energy Released in Nuclear Explosions?
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High School Does Photon Emission Cause Decoherence?
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High School What takes up the empty space of an atom?
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High School When are particles in a quantum state?
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High School Is Solving Schrodinger's Equation the Best Way to Approach Quantum Mechanics?
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High School The Lightness of Being: Frank Wilczek's Lay Book
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High School What is the connection between unitarity and thermodynamics?
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High School Quantum Interactions happen where?
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High School Bell's Inequality && polarisation for the layman
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High School Proving entanglement using polarisation & Bell's Inequality
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High School Decoherence and the Dust Particle
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High School What is the Hamiltonian operator for a decaying Carbon-14 atom?
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High School How Does the Double Slit Experiment Show Both Particle and Wave Behaviors?
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High School Quantum mechanics and reality of matter
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High School Limits of no-communication theorem
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High School Are these good analogues for entanglement
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High School Is entanglement preserved on re-emission of photons
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High School Why QM (or rather, nature) is weird, in lay terms.
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High School Can Quantum Occur on Manifolds Beyond Spacetime?
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High School Can a Quantum Observer Perceive Superpositions Inaccessible to Humans?
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High School What Happens to a Cat in a Box Without Factorization?
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High School Is it there or not (when we are not looking at it)?
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High School How do scientists work with nonlinear crystals
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High School Bell's Theorem basic question on contextuality & locality
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High School Is Decoherence Possible Without Collapse?
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High School Quantization Explained: Understanding Photon Energy Packages
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High School Proof Photons Exist? Evidence & Facts
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High School Diffraction of light, the mechanism
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High School Large Casimir Cavity: Can Its Effect Be Enhanced?
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High School Watching the double-slit experiment affects the results?
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High School Does Observation Create Reality in Quantum Physics?
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High School Why does the complex conjugate of psi pop out?
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High School Why quantum physics like a math theory till a physics theory
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High School Tom Campbell and his outrageous claim
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High School Understanding Quantum Computers: A Beginner's Guide
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High School Electron Wave Behavior in Transistors - Yashtir Gopee
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High School Weak measurement in double slit experiment gives which path
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High School Magnetic Wormholes: Reality or Fiction?
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High School A question about parallel universes I want to share
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High School Can a particle exist without time
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High School Speed of interaction between entangled particles
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High School The Electron's First Spin: An Overview
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High School Is quantum physics a theory of unknowledge ?
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High School How does quantum tunneling occur without an observer?
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High School Do each point in solid have a special energy state?
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High School How Does Quantum Entanglement Not Violate Causality?
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High School Is the cat alive, dead, both or unknown
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High School Energy Levels in Hydrogen: Calculating Photon Energy & Wavelength
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High School Illusion that shell, subshell and orbitals are the same
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High School What is the difference between simple harmonic wave and stationary wave?
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High School Is the Net Charge of a Hydrogen Atom the Same in Excited State vs Ground State?
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High School Why Do 3D Shapes Appear as Ripples on a Pond?
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High School About light, photon mass and E=mc^2
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High School Why the orbitals can contain maximum of 2 electrons?
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High School The speed of light in a medium
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