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Graduate Casimir Force: Where Does the Energy Come From?

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Graduate Transition from Poisson brackets to commutors?

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Graduate LHV simulation for bell setup based on photon bunching

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Graduate Can Multiple Universes Coexist and Interfere with Each Other?

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Graduate What Does O(\hbar^2) Mean in Commutation Relations?

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Graduate Understand Decoherence in Quantum Computers: How Heat Affects Qubits

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Graduate Two slit experiments with things other than photons

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Graduate How Many Quantum States Can Four Bosons Have in a Harmonic Oscillator?

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Graduate Beyond Schrodinger's Cat - a Television Appearance

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Graduate Polarization Vector for Quantum EM Field

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Graduate Origin of Universe: Big Bang Theory

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Graduate What is a CAT state in the beryllium experiment?

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Undergrad Do All Temperatures Emit Multiple Wavelengths in Blackbody Radiation?

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Graduate Wave-particle duality question

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Graduate Can Gamma Rays Alone Create Electron-Positron Pairs?

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Graduate Why perturbation theory and the Schrödinger equation make no sense

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Graduate Taking up QFT for the first time

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Graduate Entangled states in the classical limit

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Graduate What does density of states physically represent?

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Graduate Is Direct Brute Force Quantization Possible for Equations of Motion?

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Graduate Angle of pilot wave through apperature?

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Undergrad Preference for lower energy states?

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Graduate Energy States of Electrons in Free Space

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Graduate Questioning an application of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle

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Graduate Quantization on momentum space

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Graduate About the behaviour of a beam-splitter

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Solving the Riddle of Chaotic Particle

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Graduate Peer-Reviewed References for ZapperZ's Ideas on Barut and Bohm de Broglie

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Graduate Could EM/strong/weak force be expressed geometrically?

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Graduate Wave function and Uncertinaty Principle?

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Graduate System with big number of particles

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Graduate Bell's theorem and Harrison's (2006) inequality

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Graduate How does quantum mechanics affect the classical electrostatic force?

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Graduate What is the Ground State Energy of a Harmonic Oscillator?

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Graduate Why do we think particle is wave and probability also wave?

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Graduate Rotation Energy Levels and Degeneracy.

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Graduate Why does blackbody radiation show a continuous spectrum if energy is quantized?

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Graduate The Heisenberg Uncertainty Princeple

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Graduate Density matrix for QFT from the path integral?

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Graduate Has a unified theory explaining gravity and electromagnetism been found?

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Graduate What is the Relational Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Are Unphysical Renormalization Conditions in QFT Justifiable?

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Graduate Why is the square modulus of the wave function used in quantum mechanics?

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Undergrad Does the equation E=mc2 prove that energy and mass are equivalent?

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Graduate How can backwards-in-time signals find their target in Stenger's model?

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Graduate Absolute Zero or Uncertainty Principal?

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Graduate Spin and orbital magnetic moments?

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Graduate Is this solid-state electrical generator patent based on real physics?

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High School What is the menaing of standing plane waves ?

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Graduate Commutation relations trouble (basic)

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Undergrad Can You Really Go Through Walls According to Physics?

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Graduate Observable and interaction

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Undergrad Why Does My Emission Spectra Prediction Program Differ from Lab Results?

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Graduate Which assumption fails in Bell's theorem experiments

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Graduate Photon Interaction: Manish Mehta Question

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Graduate Dimensions of a probability amplitude (matrix element)?

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Undergrad What causes natural decay and why can't it be avoided?

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Undergrad How does increasing distance affect potential energy in an atom?

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Graduate Reading the FAQ on how phonons

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Graduate Do photons have finitely many wavelengths?

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Graduate Why does quantum tunneling violate causality and classical physics?

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Graduate Why Does Observing the Double Slit Experiment Change the Outcome?

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Graduate Why do particles from quantum fields obey single-particle quantum mechanics?

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Graduate Double slit experiment: does waveform collapse without recording measurements?

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Undergrad What is a blackbody?What special of its radiation?

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Graduate Naive Feynman diagram question

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Graduate Is there any approximation to the two particle density matrix

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Undergrad What is a Pure State and Mixed State?

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Graduate Do antiparticles really go back in time?

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Graduate Circuit Response to Gamma Rays

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Graduate QFT and unitary Lorent representation

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Graduate Can Photons Ever Acquire Mass Through Theoretical Processes?

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Graduate Why does an observer affect the electron?

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High School What Is the Size of a Photon?

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Graduate Schrodinger equation in gravitational field

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Undergrad Looking for explanation of randomness.

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Graduate Do massless particles always have momentum in the direction of travel?

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Graduate Why Do Spin 1/2 Particles Behave Like a Twisted Ribbon?

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Graduate Invariant quantities for antimatter

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High School What does superposition mean in linear algebra?

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Graduate Brian Green's Beam Splitter Experiments

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Graduate Is superposition real or just a choice of basis?

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Graduate Matrix Mechanics for the Bored Wave Mechanics Student

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Graduate Does wave-particle duality reflect measurement versus time evolution?

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Graduate Eigenkets of the field operator.

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Graduate Heisenberg and quantum mechanics

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Graduate Understanding Multidimensional Time

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Undergrad Can Technology Convert Matter to Energy and Vice Versa?

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Graduate Pauli-Villars regularization and Ward-Takahashi identity in Peskin chapter 7

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Graduate Understanding Fourier Series and Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle

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Undergrad Why must wave frequencies be integers?

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Graduate What Does the Wave Function y(r,t) Represent in Quantum Mechanics?

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High School Hiesenberg uncertainty principle in 100 ACII characters or less

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Graduate Quantum Evolution by Johnjoe McFadden: Fascinating Read on Quantum Physics

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Graduate Mutli-partite states and operators

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Graduate Explanation for term in formula, QFT

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Graduate Could gravity be a manifestation of the Casimir effect?

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Graduate Storing Photons: A Theoretical Possibility?

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Graduate Quantum entanglement information transfer proven?

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