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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Graduate Understanding Barandes' microscopic theory of causality
Graduate Partial Reflection: Explaining Glass & Thickness Effects
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Graduate Does uncertainty principle imply non-conservation of energy?
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Graduate Random Museings on quantum computeing.
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Graduate Photon/lightwave velocity in different mediums
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High School What is the Modulus of an Eigenvalue?
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Graduate Particle Stability: Wave Packets & Target Interactions
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High School Understanding the Composition of Energy
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Graduate Is it Realistic to Write a Research Paper on Quantum Physics in High School?
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Graduate Can the Double Slit Experiment Explain Faster-Than-Light Signals with Photons?
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Graduate Photoelectric effect and polarization
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Graduate Virtual Particles: Are Coulomb Forces Mediated by Photons?
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Undergrad Why is sq rt of -1 needed in wave equations
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Graduate Gents: Combining Chiral Currents with Translational Invariance
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Graduate Exploring Wavefunctions in Cloud Chamber Experiments
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Graduate Advanced Quantum Theory Final: Virtual Challenge on Particle Scattering
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Graduate Is the Lorentz Transformation responsible for Quantum Weirdness
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Graduate Why Pauli's Exclusion Principle?
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Graduate Wha is quantum physics claiming?
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Graduate Do EPR Tests Require Simultaneous Measurements?
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Graduate Electric field operator (and the HOM dip)
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Graduate Can Entangled Particles Enable Faster-Than-Light Communication?
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Graduate Pauli exclusion principle, fermions, bosons
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Graduate Physics Discovery: 99.99995% Confidence Level and Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate Unconventional View of Black Holes: Dimensionless Places of Extreme Gravity
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Graduate The speed of light and the uncertainty principle
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Graduate How does an atomic element jump the Quantum fence?
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Graduate How does Quantum Tunneling work?
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Graduate What Does the [A., A.] Term Signify in Non-Abelian Yang-Mills Theory?
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Graduate Can Quantum Mechanics Define a Proper Reference Frame for Particles?
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Undergrad Does the shortest distance exists?
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Graduate Is matter made from nothing but a mathematical probability?
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Undergrad Why be and Mg not chemically inactive
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Graduate What is the evidence against hidden variable theories?
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Graduate Bohr's electronic theory vs. Schroedinger equation?
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Al-jazeera and quantum mechanics
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Graduate What are the Dirac matrices used for in the Klein-Gordon equation?
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Graduate Where do the energy come from?
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Undergrad Electron Transitions and the Uncertainty Principle
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Graduate How Can the Emission Spectrum of a Gas Be Manipulated?
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Undergrad Electrons and simple/complex molecules.
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Graduate Quantum Dynamics and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
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Graduate Why doesn't the electron stick on the proton in the L=0 states?
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Graduate Complex Schrodinger Equation, references?
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Graduate Blackhole Physics: Can Particles Escape Event Horizon?
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Graduate How Can We Ensure Only One Particle is Emitted in the Double Slit Experiment?
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Graduate Uncertainty Principle: Can We Know a Particle's Velocity Twice?
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Graduate Is Quantum Mechanics the Real Problem in Understanding Nature?
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Graduate Momentum an electron leads to velocity
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Graduate Angular Momentum: Generators & Commutation Relations
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Graduate Article which explains entanglement
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Undergrad Electron Stability in High Energy States
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Graduate What is the significance of the Compton wavelength for an isolated particle?
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Graduate Can the Born Rule Be Derived Within the Everett Interpretation?
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Graduate Uncertanity in angular momentum
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Graduate Is it intuitive that the Energy levels
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Undergrad Light Electromagnetic: Why Don't They Deflect?
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Undergrad Double-Slit Experiment:Bright Fringe #s Practical & Theoretical
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Graduate Making Sense of Quantum Mechanics: Promises to Keep
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Graduate Understanding Virtual Particles and their Connection to Zero Point Energy
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Graduate Explaining Quantum Mechanics: What You Need to Know
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Graduate Information needed on this physics thesis
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Graduate How Does Schrödinger's Wave Equation Describe Quantum Particles?
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Graduate There can never exist a vacuum
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Graduate Lorentz Transformations and Spinors
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Graduate Can Two Realities Control Physiological Processes?
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Graduate Origin of measurement uncertainty
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Undergrad Why Do Some Photons Get Reflected While Others Are Absorbed?
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Graduate Pauli to Sommerfeld on Discrete Derivative
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Graduate Classical computing and quantum computing
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Graduate Entangled Photon Holes: AIP News
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Graduate Why Do Quantum Mechanics Operators Have Their Specific Forms?
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Graduate Exact solution of the double slit experiment with a single photon
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What is the Essence of This Field?
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Graduate Path integral formulation of wave-optics
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Are 'Observables' Considered a Valid Term in Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Schwinger variational principle
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Graduate Wave Motion in Quantum Physics
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Graduate What is polarization in the language of photons and QM?
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Graduate Derivation of Plank's Equation on Blackbody Radiation: Standing Waves Explained
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Graduate Measurement Issues: POVM, Neumann and generalized
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Undergrad Wondering if diffraction could be observed even in humans
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Graduate Classical Energy vs Quantum Energy
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Graduate Regarding the discovery of quantum theory
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Graduate Smallest Distance Possible: Planck Length
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Graduate How fast does the wave function decollapse ?
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Graduate Electron Diffraction: Wave-Particle Duality Explained
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Graduate QFT: A Modern Intro, by Michio Kaku
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Graduate Help How to understand classical Fermion field from anticommuting relations?
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Graduate Field Quantization: Confined in Cube or Whole Space?
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Graduate Introduction to Quantum Computation
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Is the Universe Running Out of Atoms?
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Graduate Can Simplifying Quantum Entanglement Help Understand It Better?
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Graduate Graviton Spin: What is Moment of Inertia x Angular Frequency?
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Graduate What Causes the Observer Effect in Wave-Particle Duality?
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Graduate Quantum computer solves problem, without running
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Graduate TQFT, functors, and n-Hilbert spaces
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Graduate Unexplained Experiments for new physics
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Graduate Is the quantum field an aether?
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Undergrad Understanding Parity: What Does Reversing Coordinates Mean?
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