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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Undergrad "The wavefunction never collapses"
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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Graduate InVisage: Quantum Film - real of fake?
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Graduate Appearance of new information: mirror of collapse?
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Graduate Why is Quantum thoery so confusing that no body actually understand it ?
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Graduate About Photon as an independent entity
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Graduate What is the significance of the Ramsauer-Townsend effect?
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Graduate What Is Probability Current Density in Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Can a Hamiltonian be unbounded ?
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Graduate Solve Momentum Expectation Change w/ Ehrenfest's Thm
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Graduate Bra-Ket Operation: Multiplying Equation by |psi1>
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Graduate Is intregral particle number a theoretical assumption?
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Graduate What are the key differences between H1 and H2 Hilbert spaces?
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Graduate Fermion annihilation operators from position and momentum
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Graduate How does the uncertainty principle relate to Maxwell's equations?
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Graduate The Basic premises behind quantum mechanics
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Graduate L² Hilbert space, bound states, asymptotics of wave functions
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Graduate General method for solving SE
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Graduate Why does observing an electron prevent it from entering a superposition?
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Graduate Computation of the effective action (Peskin 11.4)
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Graduate Photon Divergence: Questions & Answers
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Graduate N-point Green's function in QFT
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Undergrad Hydrogen Spectral Series Question
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Graduate Questions about phase velocity, and group velocity
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Graduate Slit interference pattern depends or whether there is a clock in the room?
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Graduate Massive Particles and Standing Waves
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Graduate Hamiltonian of spin 1/2 in tangential magnetic field
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Graduate The 'i' in the momentum operator
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Undergrad What type of wave does the electron travel as?
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Graduate Formula for a spin S in a SGE
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Graduate Is a photon in the form of a wave or a beam?
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High School Introduction to Quantum Physics: Spin
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Graduate Quantum mechanics momentum operator
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Graduate Dimensional analysis of the london penetration depth
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Graduate Wave-Particle Duality (explained?)
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Graduate Clarifying the rules of Reflection
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Graduate Exploring Dirac Matrices in the Context of the Dirac Equation
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Undergrad What do Bosons travel through?
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Graduate Is the hamiltonian in the coordinate representation always diagonal?
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Graduate A wave that can only be detected in one location
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Graduate Prior interaction as an unwarranted assumption of EPR
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High School Name a bunch of famous physics paradoxes
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Graduate Could quantum teleportation be used to teleport humans?
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Graduate Hund's rule and angular momentum coupling
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Graduate Gravitationally amplified quantum fluctuations
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Graduate Conjugate momentum in the hamiltonian
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Share Your Thoughts: An Idea to Consider
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Graduate Toy model, contextual particles/non-contextual ensemble
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Graduate Perturbation theory and total derivatives
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High School Need help with understanding an idea
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Undergrad Convert Mcd to MicroEinstein - Tips & Hints
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Graduate What is a wave function and its collapse?
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Graduate Measurement problem -basic definition.
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Graduate Does the graviton move at the speed of light in any reference frame?
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Graduate Can Quantum Physics be weaponized?
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