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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

A Understanding Barandes' microscopic theory of causality
Wave/Particle duality experiment?
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Stern-Gerlach Experiment: Spin Orbit Coupling
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The time before sentient beings
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Fowler Nordheim Tunnelling -
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Speed of universe and quantum theory
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Double slit experiment with macroscopic size objects
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Quantum Mechanics for Military Officers
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Wien's displacement law. A paradox
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Minimum Uncertainty Wavefunction
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Harmonic Oscillator with fermions
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Visualizing the Atom: Find a Way to See Inside
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Casimir Force: Where Does the Energy Come From?
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Transition from Poisson brackets to commutors?
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LHV simulation for bell setup based on photon bunching
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Can Multiple Universes Coexist and Interfere with Each Other?
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What Does O(\hbar^2) Mean in Commutation Relations?
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Understand Decoherence in Quantum Computers: How Heat Affects Qubits
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Two slit experiments with things other than photons
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How Many Quantum States Can Four Bosons Have in a Harmonic Oscillator?
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Beyond Schrodinger's Cat - a Television Appearance
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Polarization Vector for Quantum EM Field
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Origin of Universe: Big Bang Theory
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What is CAT State? Explaining Beryllium Experiments
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Do All Temperatures Emit Multiple Wavelengths in Blackbody Radiation?
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Wave-particle duality question
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Can Gamma Rays Alone Create Electron-Positron Pairs?
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Help! Physics Confuses Me: Understanding Quantum Mechanics
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Taking up QFT for the first time
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Entangled states in the classical limit
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Density of States: Explanation & Applications
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Is Direct Brute Force Quantization Possible for Equations of Motion?
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Angle of pilot wave through apperature?
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Preference for lower energy states?
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Energy States of Electrons in Free Space
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Exploring Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
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Quantization on momentum space
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About the behaviour of a beam-splitter
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Solving the Riddle of Chaotic Particle
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Peer-Reviewed References for ZapperZ's Ideas on Barut and Bohm de Broglie
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Could EM/strong/weak force be expressed geometrically?
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Wave function and Uncertinaty Principle?
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System with big number of particles
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Bell's theorem and Harrison's (2006) inequality
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How does quantum mechanics affect the classical electrostatic force?
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What is the Ground State Energy of a Harmonic Oscillator?
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Why do we think particle is wave and probability also wave?
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Rotation Energy Levels and Degeneracy.
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Blackbody Radiation: Plank's Quantum States & Frequencies
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The Heisenberg Uncertainty Princeple
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Density matrix for QFT from the path integral?
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Has the Theory of Unification in Physics Been Discovered Yet?
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What is the Relational Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics?
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Are Unphysical Renormalization Conditions in QFT Justifiable?
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Why is the square modulus of the wave function used in quantum mechanics?
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Does the equation E=mc2 prove that energy and mass are equivalent?
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Atoms, Void & Time Reversability
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Absolute Zero or Uncertainty Principal?
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Spin and orbital magnetic moments?
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Yet another solid-state electrical generator patent
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What is the menaing of standing plane waves ?
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Commutation relations trouble (basic)
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Can You Really Go Through Walls According to Physics?
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Observable and interaction
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Why Does My Emission Spectra Prediction Program Differ from Lab Results?
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Fun question RE: Bell's Theorem
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Photon Interaction: Manish Mehta Question
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Dimensions of a probability amplitude (matrix element)?
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What causes natural decay and why can't it be avoided?
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How does increasing distance affect potential energy in an atom?
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Reading the FAQ on how phonons
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Do photons have finitely many wavelengths?
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What Makes Quantum Tunneling Possible Despite Classical Physics?
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Why Does Observing the Double Slit Experiment Change the Outcome?
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Quantum Computing: Isolating Atoms & Effects of EM Waves
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What Is the Connection Between Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory?
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Double Slit Experiment: Unrecorded Measurements & Waveform Collapse
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What is a blackbody?What special of its radiation?
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Naive Feynman diagram question
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Is there any approximation to the two particle density matrix
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What is a Pure State and Mixed State?
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Do antiparticles really go back in time?
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Circuit Response to Gamma Rays
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QFT and unitary Lorent representation
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Can Photons Ever Acquire Mass Through Theoretical Processes?
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Why does an observer affect the electron?
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Schrodinger equation in gravitational field
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Do massless particles always have momentum in the direction of travel?
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Invariant quantities for antimatter
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What is Superposition? Explained in Simple Terms
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Brian Green's Beam Splitter Experiments
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Superposition and Kets: Rational Discussion
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Matrix Mechanics for the Bored Wave Mechanics Student
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Is Wave-Particle Dualism the Key to Understanding Quantum Mechanics?
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Eigenkets of the field operator.
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Heisenberg and quantum mechanics
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Understanding Multidimensional Time
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Can Technology Convert Matter to Energy and Vice Versa?
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QFT Peskin Errata: Pauli Vilars Regularization & Ward Takahashi Identity
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Understanding Fourier Series and Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
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Blackbody Radiation: Explaining Integer Frequencies
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