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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Graduate Understanding Barandes' microscopic theory of causality
Graduate Do photons bounce off of each other?
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Graduate Can Double Slit Quantum Eraser Enable Faster-than-Light Communication?
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High School Is Richard Feynman's Lecture on Quantum Physics Still Relevant Today?
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Graduate How can I accurately portray quantum physics in a short film?
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Graduate Who Studies Partial Wave Unitarity in Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Does the Pauli Exclusion Principle Apply to All Quantum Particles?
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Graduate Photon's age? consider two interacting photons in the EPR effect
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Graduate Photon Momentum Transfer & Energy Conservation
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Graduate Oberver Collapsing Wave funcions vs. Wheeler-Feynman Absorber
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Graduate Learn about Operator Transformation for Improved Understanding of Complex Papers
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Graduate Can High Energy Levels Allow Neutrons to Overlap in Black Holes?
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Graduate Two questions concerning scattering in QED
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Graduate Why Is the Fine Structure Constant Still a Mystery?
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Graduate What Determines the Precession Angle of an Electron in a Magnetic Field?
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Graduate Time Operator in Standard Quantum Mechanics?
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Undergrad Understanding the Uncertainty Principle
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Graduate Infinite quantum wave function
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Graduate Does Quantum Entanglement Reveal Flaws in Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Virtual particle energy-momentum
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Graduate Quantum mechanics and the macroscopic universe .
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Graduate Superselection Rule: Definition & Meaning
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Graduate Transformations of free fields
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Graduate Rotation Invariant of Sch. Equation and [Lx,H]=0] ?
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Graduate How Do Quantum Operators Affect Position and Momentum Expectations?
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Graduate Connection between Quantum and Classical worlds
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Graduate How Is CP-Violation Explored in Particle Physics?
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Graduate Relation between a measurement and the operators
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Graduate Local measurements on an entangled pair. (My understanding)
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Graduate Feynman propagator as distribution
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Graduate Non-Physicist looking for an answer
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Graduate A question about the uncertainty principle.
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Graduate Two body problem of Hidrogen Atom
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Graduate Angular Momentum, Spin and SO(3), SU(2), and Lorentz Group
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Graduate How Small Can Computers Get Before They Become Phantom Devices?
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Graduate Physicists Successfully Store and Retrieve Nothing
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Graduate True vacuums with no energy at all inside
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Graduate Are the Quantum Numbers real ?
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Graduate A common sense objection to tunneling?
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Graduate The Meaning of Schrodingers Equation - In English
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Graduate Understanding Classical Physics: The Role of Planck Constant
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Graduate Quantum computations, irreversibility, unitarity
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Graduate Foldy-Wouthusien velocity operator
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Graduate Why doesn't the hydrogen spectrum show binding energies of 4.53 or 2.26 evolts?
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Graduate Heisenberg's equation of motion
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Graduate Berry's phase of bloch oscillation
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Graduate What Conditions Ensure Adiabaticity in a Slowly Varying Harmonic Oscillator?
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Graduate Spin of the sress-energy tensor in d=2
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Graduate Understanding Photon Emission: Random Time Delay and Duration Explained
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Quantum Nonsense? Film Review on Liquid Nitrogen & Superconductor
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Graduate Charge In Schroedinger's Equation
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Graduate What is the result of Fourier transformation of functional theta function?
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High School Getting Involved In High School?
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Graduate Minimum possible energy for a particle in a box
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Graduate Momentum as the generator of translation
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Undergrad What is the Uncertainty Principle in Quantum Physics?
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Graduate Information RE The Double-Slit Experiment?
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Graduate Have you heard about QED coherence in matter?
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Graduate What's the difference between them
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Graduate The idea behind renormalization group.
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Graduate What happed to the other, if one entangled particle is destroyed
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Graduate Do waves and/or particles exist at all?
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Graduate Are Waves Real or Just Mathematical Constructs in Quantum Physics?
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Graduate How can the Cauchy integral and Fourier integral produce the same result?
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Graduate One-particle irreducibles in P&S
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Graduate Are Electron Orbits Really Circular or Is It Just an Artist's Depiction?
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Undergrad Converting cm^-1 for Fine-Structure Energy Difference
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Graduate Maxwell's equations, Orthogonality, electric and magnetic fields in EM
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Graduate How Large Can a Nucleus Get Before Instability Sets In?
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Graduate Wave-Particle Duality: HotQuanta's Insight
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Graduate Ansatz: Principle, Hypothesis, Boundary Condition?
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Graduate Can virtual particles appear ANYWHERE?
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Graduate When do we use notion of effective mass
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Graduate Noncommuting operators and uncertainty relations
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Graduate Appropriate Concepts in the Formulation of Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate Electron Survival Theory at 0K: Explained
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Graduate Question about the hermiticity of the momentum operator
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Graduate Visualisation of H2 molecule wavefuctions needed
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Graduate How Do Frequencies Cancel Out in the Casimir Effect?
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Graduate What is a contact transformation according to Dirac's Lectures on QFT?
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Undergrad Wavelength - differences in equations
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Graduate Ground State Frequency of Electron in H+
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Graduate Understanding Hilbert Space in Quantum Mechanics: A Beginner's Guide
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Graduate Math Required for Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity
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Graduate Why Choose Liouville Representation Over Hamiltonian in Classical Mechanics?
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Graduate Starting Place For Quantum Physics
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Graduate X-Ray Tube Emission: Wave Particle Duality Explained
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Would anyone say that quantum physics is at all connected to spirituality?
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Graduate How Does the Photoelectric Effect Transition from Wave to Particle Theory?
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Undergrad Light, Current, & Magnetism Relationship?
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Graduate Are Photons Truly Particles or Simply Waves?
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Graduate Double Potential Well: Wave Function & Forces
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Undergrad Why Electrons Don't Fall Into Nucleus of Atoms
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Undergrad What results when sound interacts with an Atom
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Graduate The exact meaning of the 4 components of the Dirac Spinor
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Graduate Propagator - Hankel function - infinite? - Weinberg
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Graduate Commutation relation for L_3 and phi
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Undergrad Undergraduate Lab: Photoelectric Effect Experiment
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Graduate What is the inner product in state (ket/Hilbert) space.
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Graduate Back up a step, before Bell's theorem
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