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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Graduate Understanding Barandes' microscopic theory of causality
Graduate Reason why the chair can support me
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Undergrad Interference with short and Long path?
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Graduate Spin & the Stern-Gerlach Experiment: Real Answer?
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Graduate Quantum physics movie - What the *$@ are we thinking? And upcoming movie
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Graduate The Absorption of Photons by Free Electrons
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Graduate LC oscillator - is it quantised?
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Graduate Green function for bilocal operatos?
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Graduate Why is the classical atom unstable?
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Graduate Regarding human influence and Heisenberg
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Undergrad Photon Detectors: How Do They Work?
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Graduate Layman's Question on Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate Do Photons from the Sun Travel to Earth Uninterrupted?
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Undergrad Learn About Heisenberg's Principle - Questions Answered
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Graduate Can Slow Glass or Optical Black Holes Be Used for Storing Photons?
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Graduate How Do Charges Interact Through Photon Exchange?
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Undergrad Double-Slit Experiment and Interference
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Graduate Can Signals Be Transmitted Faster Than Light Using Quantum Entanglement?
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Graduate The Deuterium Nucleus Spin Question
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Undergrad Understanding E/M Waves and Frequency Changes in Different Mediums
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Graduate Understanding Entanglement: The Impact of Magnetic Fields
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Graduate Is quantum indeterminacy a result of experiment design?
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Graduate How to Measure Probabilities for Observables in Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Diffraction: Does the electron determine the hole to travel through?
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Graduate Heat Capacity of Solid Material: Plank's Constant Implications
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Graduate Good paper(s) on Bell's theorem
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Graduate What books do you recommend for reference?
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Graduate That queer experiment; what is its limit?
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Graduate You cannot derieve Schrödinger Equation .
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Graduate Question on Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in QFT Final
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Graduate Understanding the Mathematical Definition of the State Ket Expansion in Sakurai
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Graduate Non-linear Replacements for QM
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Graduate Is there such a thing as position entanglement?
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Graduate Phase space: a one-to-one mapping with all quantum dynamics?
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Undergrad Drawing Feynman Diagrams: Tools & Photoshop
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Graduate Can the Reality of the Quantum Mechanical Wave Function be Falsified?
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Graduate Where Can I Find Rigorous Developments of the Path Integral Formulation?
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Graduate (maybe) simple calculation question
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Graduate Momentum of a photon and Einstein
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Graduate Need help with Clebsch-Gordan calculations?
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Graduate Understanding Renormalization in Quantum Field Theory
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Graduate What is the true definition of 'observe' in quantum physics?
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Graduate Addition Theorem for Spherical Harmonics
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Graduate Researchers Develop Quantum Processor
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Graduate Disappearing and reappearing at the other side of the wall
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Graduate Y: Calculating Expectation Value of O with Orthonormal State
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Graduate A few thoughts on entanglement
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Graduate Rigorous Intro to QM: Best Books for Learning
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Graduate Can Anything Explain No Matter = No Photon?
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Graduate What are the units of a wave function
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Graduate What causes photon diffraction through thin air?
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Graduate Some my puzzles of coincidence counting
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Graduate QED Courses at the Graduate Level: Standard or Optional?
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Graduate Question on observables of QFT
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Graduate What Happens When the Electron Energy E Equals Potential V in Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Could Proton Microscopes Revolutionize Imaging with Their Smaller Wavelength?
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Graduate How Quantum Teleportation work ?
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Graduate Is Dr. Randell Mills' Alternative Energy Source the Future of Power Generation?
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Graduate Mass is converted into energy which appears as Binding Energy
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Graduate Quantum superpostion, determinability, and existance of virtual particles
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Graduate Real Double-Slit Experiment: Unraveling Quantum Mystery
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Graduate I hope I'm not bothering anybody here
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Graduate Understanding Quantum Chaos: A Beginner's Guide
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Graduate Particles & Fields: QM and Charged Particles
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Graduate A question on measurment in QM
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Graduate Deterministic quantum mechanics?
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Graduate A neutron star collapses - where's pauli?
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Graduate Is incandescence a purely quantum phenomenon?
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Graduate Wave Function Collapse in Quantum Mechanics: Understanding Probability
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Graduate QFT & Bound States: Is Calculation Possible?
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Graduate How many famous paradoxes in Quantum Mechanic?
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Graduate Hyperentanglement demonstrated
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Graduate Does any linear unitary operator stand for a symmetry transformation?
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Graduate General questions about fields and light
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Graduate What Are the Key References and Concepts in Algebraic Quantum Theory?
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Graduate Schroedinger's test-tube babies
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Graduate Hamiltonian of a spin 1/2 particle in a constant mag. field
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Graduate Exploring the Unitarity Problem in Non-Renormalizable Theories
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Graduate Why don't lower energy photons sometimes produce a neutrino-antineutrino pair?
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Graduate What causes a particle to go into superposition?
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Graduate Learning at college about wave partile duality
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Graduate Does Pair Creation = Bremsstrahlung?
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Graduate When a free proton captures a free electron
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Graduate Vacuum Polarization - Why invoked?
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University of Australia Slows Light to 670 mph
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Graduate How Does Quantum Field Theory Explain Vacuum Energy and Momentum?
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Graduate Everything in nature is truly random and unpredictable
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Graduate Debroglie wavelength of a baseball
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Graduate Kinetic energy change in virtual photon exchange
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Graduate What do the terms in Heisenberg's matrices represent?
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Graduate What causes the arrow of time ?
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Graduate Are Parallel Universes and Dimensions Real or Just Theoretical Possibilities?
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Graduate Why the name Second Quantization ?
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Graduate Solving Shrodinger Equation for Hawking Radiation
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Graduate A question on momenta of electrons
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Graduate QED vs Point Charge of the Electron
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High School What is correct write about photon?
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Undergrad Wave-Particle Duality of Light
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Graduate Why Is the Wave Function of Photons Considered a Physical Wave?
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Undergrad Quantum Mechanics Book for First Year Physics Students
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Graduate Uncertainty theory doesn't disprove fate?
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