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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

A Understanding Barandes' microscopic theory of causality
Charge of Proton & Electron: Explained
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How Many Gluons Are Inside a Proton?
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Does Quantum Mechanics Suggest Violations of Conservation Laws?
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Why the reflection and transmission?
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Understanding the Equivalence of Dirac Delta Functions in Quantum Mechanics
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Do Quantum Numbers Determine the Node Structure of Wavefunctions?
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Time independent schrodinger equation: delta potential
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Multiple Particles in a Box: How Does the Schrodinger Equation Change?
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The Double Slit Experiment: A Fascinating Introduction to Quantum Physics
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Quantum vaccum one dimensional?
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Commutators and the Parametric Nonrelativistic Particle?
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Solving the Mystery of Energy Eigenfunctions
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Question on Experiments with Entangled Particles and Quantum Mechanics
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Selection rules and related stuffs
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How to Solve Quantum Mechanics Problems Using Commutation Relations
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How Do You Calculate Spectral Line Width?
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Tunneling past the speed of light
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QM of particles with no common past light cone
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Photon is different from an eletron
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KWhat conditions must a wavefunction satisfy for all values of x?
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Is this state coherent or squeezed according to the definitions given?
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Relativity & Quantum Theory: Is Locality Violated?
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Understanding the Uncertainty Principle and the Physical Reality of Electrons"
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Does the Pauli Exclusion Principle Imply Orthogonality of Quantum States?
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Why is glass QM transparent ?
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A general math theory on the quantum harmonic oscillator?
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Quantum angle selectivity of polirizers filter
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Can Entangled Particles Enable Faster-Than-Light Communication?
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Quantum Problem: Particle Motion Under Constraints and Christoffel Symbols
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Fermi Golden Rule Tutorial | PH.UTexas.edu
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Is there a minimum possible wavelength?
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What are the effects of quantum energy on macroscopic objects?
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Why Does the Bloch Sphere Use Theta Over Two for Qubit Representation?
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Even another 2-slit experiment setup
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Neutron Decay Into Proton: Hawking's New Book
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What Does the Double Slit Experiment Reveal About the Nature of Particles?
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Unlocking Mathematical Mysteries: Wave Mechanics & Inner Product Spaces
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How Does a Flat Black Body Radiate Energy into a Hemisphere?
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Do Photons Have Different Rest Mass?
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A few questions about particles.
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Harmonic Oscillator, Ladder Operators, and Dirac notation
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Intensity of light constantwhy rate of emission of electrons changes?
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Entanglement: What is it and how is it measured?
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Understanding Quantisation: Definition and Examples for Clear Understanding
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Uncertainty of when a photon is absorbed
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Probability Density of Electron in EM & Matter Waves
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Godel incompletness related to physics?
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Another misleading observer example, or not?
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Measuring instant changes in particles
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Is State 1 the Cause of State 2 or Vice Versa?
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Question on observer created reality
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Tom Green says I'm wrong about Quantum Physics
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Frustrated total internal reflection
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Understanding Velocity and Momentum: Unraveling the Uncertainty Principle
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What Physics Formula Applies to Particles Smaller Than 10^-10?
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Understanding the Limitations of WKB Approximation in One-Dimensional Problems
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How is light experimentally proven to be a particle?
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Necessity of Continuous Wave Functions
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What is spin up and spin down?
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Why Is Classical Dirac's Field Considered to Have No Physical Meaning?
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What does * mean and how is it used
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Eigenvalues for particle in finite square well
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Another doubt regarding wavefunction.
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Can someone explain the Schrödinger equation?
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English Translations of Original QM Sources: Find Textbook & Papers
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Why Does the Electron Not Fall Toward the Nucleus in QM?
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How can this possible tricky situation be explained?
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OK Corral: Local versus non-local QM
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Quantization of EMR in charge acceleration
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Imaginary Action Friends: Ann. Phys. & Textbook for Tunneling
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Fundimental frequency of subatomic particles.
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What will happen in the following scenario?
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Double Slit Experiment with Interference Patterns
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Similarities/differences between EM waves and particle waves
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Statistical Quantum good question
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What Happened to Heisenberg's Constant in Planck Units?
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Minimum energy for a spin flip?
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Is Quantum Probability Shaping Our Understanding of Particle Behavior?
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No experiment can be repeated? (2 questions)
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How much does the uncertainty in position increase with time?
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What is the role of time evolution in the behavior of different types of waves?
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Double Slit Experiment: Questions and Answers
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How long do photons live not in a vacum?
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Non-local Realistic theories disproved
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How Many People Actually Understand QM?
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Quantum mechanics and spacetime
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Why probilities and not definates.
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If, as Richard Feyman insisted, nobody understands quantum mechanics
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Fourier transform limited photons?
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How is a particle's spin detected in quantum mechanics?
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Quantum nonlocality without hidden variables: An algorithmic approach
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WKB and perturbation theory.
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Renormalization differential equation ?
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Life Span of a Photon - Photonics.com
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Thermal equilibration of a quantum system
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Tunneling electrons through a magnetic dielectric
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Angular momentum quantum numbers
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Understanding the idea of coherence
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The potential step and Tunneling
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How would you define Frequency in terms of quantum model?
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