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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Undergrad New interpretation for the double slit experiment with light?
Graduate Requirements for LR model - please explain.
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Graduate Is the constant c (or it's measurement) subject to the uncertainty principle?
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Graduate Is Quantum Teleportation possible without a classical channel?
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Graduate Is Feynman's sum-over-histories the key to understanding quantum mechanics?
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Graduate The Limits of Observation: Can We Collapse Wave Functions with Our Senses?
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Graduate Superposition-airy disc-snell's law-qbits.
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Graduate Is rotational energy quantized for tiny molecules?
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Graduate Understanding Perturbation Theory and Spin in Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate Double Slit Experiment & Relativistic Simultaneity
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Graduate Any good reference on quantum-classical correspondence?
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Graduate How Do Clebsch-Gordan Coefficients Help in Calculating Eigenvalues of J?
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Graduate Do entangled electrons still turn 720 degrees?
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Graduate QFT Video Lectures with David Tong
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Graduate Propagator and delta functions
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Graduate Are particles diffraction patterns?
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Graduate Question about spinor wavefunction
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Graduate Entangled Particles and Black Holes: A Conundrum of Observation?
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Graduate How Does Wave Function Collapse Relate to the Double Slit Experiment?
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Graduate Re-evolution of wavefunction after collapse
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Graduate Invariant Lagrangian or action
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Graduate Boson coherence at high temperatures?
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Graduate Google's most relevant names in Quantum Theory
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Graduate How Can You Prove No Bound States Exist in a Finite Spherical Well?
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Graduate Physicists are enabling increasingly large quantum systems to go into
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Graduate Resolution in scattering experiments
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Graduate Photons interfering with themselves-double slit experiment
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Graduate Is there really matter or just different ways for energy to interact?
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Graduate Question about interference by observation (double slit exp.)
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Graduate Planck and Einstein's theories.
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Graduate What is the meaning of \frac{1}{A}\left|\phi\rangle in quantum mechanics?
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Graduate Quantum Entanglement and time travel
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Graduate What happens when a photon hits and antiparticle?
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Graduate Eigen Value and Eigen Function
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Graduate Spread of Wave Function Under Potential
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Graduate Particle pointing away or from a charge?
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Graduate Trying to Understand Bell's reasoning
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Graduate Does antimatter have a negative mass
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Graduate Pauli exclusion principle: a Force or not?
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Graduate Is Nature's Preferred Wave Packet Shape Gaussian?
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Graduate Photon propogator = metric tensor?
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Graduate Question on orthogonal eigenfunctions
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Graduate VIP experiment explanation needed
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Graduate Total mass in the universe = infinite (Dirac Sea calculation)
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Graduate Stability of Electron/Nucleus; Heisenberg Unc.
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Graduate Einstein's formula for specific heat
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Graduate Prerequisites 4 Quantum Mechanics: Math Topics Needed
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Graduate Photon Creation and Light Generation
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Graduate Quantum Violation of Equivalency Principle
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Graduate Force or work for electronic transition?
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Graduate Relational reasoning (Rovelli's RQM, Smolin etc)
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Graduate Commutator Relations vs. Schrodinger Equation
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Graduate Understanding Bell's mathematics
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Graduate Feynman Diagram of a Coulombic Attraction?
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Graduate Just another double slit question
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Graduate Do you think the uncertainty principal will ever be solved
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Graduate Bosons and the Pauli Exclusion Principle
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Graduate Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle - Why Is It Real?
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Graduate Where does the classical limit begin?
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Graduate Can Information Really Travel Simultaneously in the Universe?
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Undergrad Details of the double-slit experiment?
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Graduate Quantum Mechanics & Free Particles: An Analysis
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Graduate What is excursion of a potential well?
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Graduate What do the 4 spin states of two particles represent
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Graduate Gamma 5 Dirac Matrice: Understanding Pseudo-Scalar
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Graduate Can virtual particles break the law that energy cannot be created or destroyed?
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Graduate What would be the world be like if Plank's Constant is modified?
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Graduate Why does the quantum harmonic oscillator have discrete energy levels?
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Graduate Are conserved the spin and orbital parts of the angular momentum?
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Graduate Double Slit Experiment: Particles, Interference & Measurement
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Graduate Real meaning of stationary states
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Graduate Field Lagrangians as systems with infinte degrees of freedom?
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Graduate Is it Reasonable to Measure Fluorescence with Single Molecule in 1 Second?
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Graduate Two Universities in China succeeded in quantum teleportation
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Graduate Photo-excitation and photo-ionization
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Graduate 3rd order derivatives in the lagrangian
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Graduate Canonical vs. path integral quantization
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Graduate Measuring Spin of a Particle Without an External Field
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Undergrad Can maxwell's EM theory explain the photoelectric effect?
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Graduate Why Does the Electron Jump Between Stationary States?
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Graduate Integrating by parts in path integral (Zee)
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Graduate Understanding Hydrogen 2p Doublet: Removing Orbital-Spin Degeneracy
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Graduate Coulomb Gauge, Lorentz Invariance & Photon Polarization in Field Theory
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Graduate Spin, let me make sure I have this straight
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Graduate Temporal Extension of Quantum Uncertainty (A Theoretical Quantum Fortune Teller)
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Graduate Sending information via quantum entanglement?
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Undergrad Question: eV level of orbiting electrons
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Graduate Quantum Entanglement: What would happen if
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Graduate About uncertainty relationship
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Graduate Using wave\particle duality to predict future event?
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Graduate How Does the Feynman Propagator Change When Multiple Photons Are Involved?
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Undergrad Probability of photons reflecting or refracting
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Graduate Question of the behavior of particles in observation
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Graduate Quick question on Quantum Entanglement
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Graduate Path integrals and supposed sum over paths
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Undergrad Chirality & Helicity: Basics, Dirac Equation, Quantum Fields
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Graduate Advanced integration techniques
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Graduate Wilsonian effective field theory
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Graduate Total control of natural forces Quantum Mechanics new defined (?)
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Graduate Using the time evolution operator
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Graduate Nonconservation of axial charge
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