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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Graduate Understanding Barandes' microscopic theory of causality
Undergrad Is the small world uncertain, or is that just our perception?
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Undergrad Measurement of Entangled Particles causes up or down spin?
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High School Time-reversal of an unknown quantum state
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Undergrad Superposition of large objects
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Undergrad Microscopic and macroscopic physics
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Undergrad Photon Momentum: The Impact of Light on Movement in Space
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High School Speed of electrons in a 2-slit experiment
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Undergrad Confused about the AC Stark effect
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Undergrad Are Coin Flips Truly Random Like Quantum Systems?
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Undergrad What Do Phase Space Path Integrals Compute?
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Undergrad Condtion on transformation to solve the Dirac equation
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High School Do photons, phonons and electrons have mass?
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Graduate There is a high concentration of introductory material on wave-particle duality
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High School Can a particle / wave pass through a sheet of material?
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High School Uncertainty Principle versus spin alignment
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Undergrad Quantum Eraser: do entangled photons arrive at different moments?
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Graduate Compton Recoil and the Electron Differential Cross Section
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Graduate Quantum Ising model correlation function query
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Undergrad Physically acceptable solutions to the Schroedinger equation?
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Undergrad How to prove that some fields are different aspects of one general field?
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Undergrad Changing the effective mass of an electron using electric potentials?
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Undergrad Conductors and weak interaction
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Undergrad Relation between spin and solar winds
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Graduate How does one make a macroscopic object?
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Undergrad The reference frame for angular momentum components
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High School Does the future affect the past in a quantum world?
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Undergrad Correlation between Symmetry number & Total wavefunction
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High School Stern-Gerlach experiment - please confirm this surprising result
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High School Are electromagnetic wavelength and quantum wavelength the same thing?
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Graduate Derive the Principle of Least Action from the Path Integral?
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Graduate Can Bohmian Mechanics Effectively Address Relativistic Quantum Field Theories?
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High School Searching for a Lost PhD Thesis on Black Holes
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Graduate J-aggregation and H-aggregation differences
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High School Why don't electrons fall into the nucleus?.
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Undergrad Schiff moment in classical electrostatics
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Undergrad How do you normalize this wave function?
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High School Quantum Entanglement spin measurement
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Graduate How Can I Address the Divergence in $\phi$ and $\ket{\overrightarrow{P}}$?
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High School Why is an electron's changing behaviour upon observation fascinating?
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Undergrad How did Schrödinger find his equation?
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Undergrad Can an electron quantum tunnel inside the potential barrier?
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Graduate General Covariance in Quantum Field Theory
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Undergrad Relativistic quantum mechanics
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Undergrad Repulsion before the screen in a double-slit experiment
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Insights Misconceptions about Virtual Particles - Comments
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Undergrad Are Energy Eigenstate Coefficients Real-valued?
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Undergrad Probability of neutrino switching: more massive, more probable?
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Undergrad Closure in the subspace of linear combinations of vectors
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Graduate Number of thermal photons in a real (finite Q) cavity
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Undergrad Exponential of momenta to entangle harmonic oscillators
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Undergrad Proof of Commutative Operators for Simultaneous Measurement
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Graduate Conservation of angular momentum in positron-electron annihilation
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Graduate Normalization of the radial part of the spherical harmonics
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High School Quantum Micro-Blackholes: Fact or Fiction?
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Undergrad Calculate a spin state as a function of the base spin states
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Graduate Anyone actively experimenting?
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High School Is diamagnetism only present with varying magnetic fields?
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Graduate Resolving the Paradox: Combining Quantum Mechanics and Special Relativity
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Undergrad How to determine Spinor in Feynman diagram
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Undergrad Quantum spaces without classical counterparts?
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High School How Could Quantum Communications Operate at Light Speed Given Relativity?
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Undergrad Renormalisation and running of the φ^3 and other coupling constants
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High School Double Slit Paradox: A Wave-Particle Mystery
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High School The nature of orthogonal oscillations (extending E&M)
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Undergrad Understanding the wrong way to quantize the Dirac Field | Part 1
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Undergrad Jonsson’s apparatus for photons rather than electrons
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Undergrad What is the nature of the photons?
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Undergrad Prove that the norm squared of a superposition of two states is +ve
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Undergrad Necessity of Quantum Gravity given Planck scales for nuclear physics
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Undergrad Bell's Theorem - why product of (2)spins can be +1 (Griffith's text)
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Graduate Is randomness real or the inability to perceive hyper complex order?
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Undergrad Solve the particle in a box problem using matrix mechanics?
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Undergrad Representing Quantum Gates in Tensor Product Space
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Graduate Reference frame of the vacuum -- which forum?
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Undergrad Spin-orbit interaction and two inconsistent values
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Undergrad Photon absorption for an atomic electron
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Graduate Do bosons contradict basic probability laws?
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Undergrad What would the world be like if the HUP were not a thing?
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Undergrad Can an electron in the 1s orbital be indefinitely far from the nucleus?
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High School Has the Double Slit Experiment been Performed in a Near Vacuum?
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Undergrad Experimental confirmation of the Born rule
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Undergrad The "size" of entangled particles
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Undergrad Pair production via Quantum Tunneling has negative Kinetic energy?
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Undergrad Does quantum theory describe light as a wave?
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Undergrad What is the meaning of the mass assigned to an individual quark?
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Undergrad Wilson-Sommerfeld quantization to solve square-well potential
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Graduate Eigenstates of ##\phi^4## theory
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Graduate Spin dynamics and the Pauli exclusion principle
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Undergrad Meaning of the Orbital Angular Momentum of Super Chiral Light
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Undergrad Hyperfine Splitting: Get Help Understanding It
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Undergrad Physical question about Phonons
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Undergrad Dirac Lagrangian and Covariant derivative
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Graduate Amplitudes for ##\phi^4## theory
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Undergrad Normal order and overlap of states
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Undergrad Can a Hamiltonian with non-spherical potential commute with l^2?
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Graduate QFT question about using momentum raising and lowering operators
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Graduate Functional Determinant of a system of differential operators?
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High School Quantum Tunneling different individual transmission probabilities
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Undergrad Spin in Real Space: Meaning of Z-Component
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Graduate Converting between field operators and harmonic oscillators
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