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Graduate Understanding Barandes' microscopic theory of causality
Graduate What Are the Quantum Forces Behind Diffusion Phenomena?
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Graduate Where can I find J. Bell's book on Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Thought Experiment: What Happens When Photons are Added to a Vacuum Space?
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Graduate Does violation of Bell's inequality imply faster-than-light communication?
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Graduate Defining Charge: Electrons, Protons, and Spin
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Graduate How is adiabatic invariant proved in a simple dynamic system?
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Graduate Is the Gedanken Data on Quantum Entanglement Available Online?
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Graduate Can Penrose's Felix experiment prove the role of gravity in objective collapse?
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Graduate Clearing the Misconception on Light's Wave-Particle Duality
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Graduate Particle Spin: Definition & Meaning
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Graduate Photon bunching in quantum optics
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Graduate Is there a proof for Fermi and Bose statistics?
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Graduate Proof of non-locality indep. of conservation law
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Graduate A trick to solve functional integraltion?
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Graduate Can Particle/Wave Duality Be Explained by the Nature of Space-Time?
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Graduate Does a controversy still exist ?
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Graduate Layman's definition of CM and QM?
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Graduate Can a complex potential have real energies?
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Undergrad Harmonic Oscillator: Lowest Allowed Energy Not E=0?
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Where did Will 'O The Wisp Go?
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Understanding the Layman's Definition of a Unit
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Graduate How Big is a Photon? Envelope Size & Oscillations
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Graduate What Are the Core Equations of Quantum Mechanics Contradicting Relativity?
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Graduate Finding Wave Function Collapse
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Graduate Intermediate qm what should i know
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Graduate Requirements of All Hidden Variable Theories
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Graduate Draw graphs for self-energy and Vertex functions
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Virtual Particles - Is it True?
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Graduate Attempts to make the Born rule emerge explicitly from outcome counting
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Graduate Field Quantization: SHOs vs Bounded States
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Graduate How Can Renormalization Methods Remove Singularities in Divergent Series?
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Undergrad Why did Stern and Gerlach use a non-uniform magnetic field in their experiment?
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Graduate Is hf=mc2 a Valid Equation in Physics?
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Graduate Entanglement of common cosmological origin?
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Graduate Dirac Contraction: Evaluating Propagators at Same Point
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Graduate Bethe-Salpeter equation confused
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Graduate Zero Point Enery Field Manipulator
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Graduate Zero Point Energy: An Exploration of Its Meaning & Implications
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Graduate Classical Atom Models: A Nobel Prize Waiting to be Won?
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Graduate Can I post my light theory on Physics Forums?
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Graduate Quantum mechanics and classical physics
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Graduate What is the relationship between quantum mechanics and quantum field theory?
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Graduate Electric dipole selection rules
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Graduate Confused ( well obviously it QM ) - TDSE problem in understand
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Graduate Calculating Vacuum Polarization Effect on Hydrogen Atom
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Graduate Non disturbing (?) measurement
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Graduate How can electrodynamics prove the stability of electron
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Graduate A new nonlinear Schrodinger equation
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Graduate I have a question about Beta Decay
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Graduate Exact calculation of tunneling current?
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Graduate Schrödinger equation: P(r)>1 ?
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Graduate Finding "Dynamical Symmetry Breaking in Quantum Field Theories
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Graduate Creating 3 Photon Entanglement with PDC: Can it be Done?
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Graduate What counts as a measurement in QM?
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Graduate What's the Flaw with Classical Mechanics and Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Planck Temperature: Is It The Upper Limit?
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Graduate Estimating Average Electric Field and Volume of Atomic Photons | DaTario
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Graduate Can you measure an objects spin or position, or polarization
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Graduate Entanglement with more than two particles
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Undergrad Question about Planck's constant
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Graduate Hamiltonian with complex potential
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Graduate Can Instantaneous Action at a Distance Exist Within Planck Time Limits?
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Graduate Why Does Inserting a Mass Width Simulate Higher Order Diagram Effects?
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Graduate Is QM Inherently Non-local in EPR and Bell Discussions?
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Graduate Imaginary Momentum: Physical Interpretation of Bound States
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Graduate Electric field produced by electron
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Graduate What role does the delta function play in quantum mechanics and field theory?
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Undergrad Learning Quantum Mechanics - A Guide for Physics A-Levelers with Math Background
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Graduate David Asks: Does Beckenstein's Law Work Both Ways?
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Graduate Feynman Rules for Phi to the 6th theory
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Graduate Is there any validity to the disproof of quantum physics theory?
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Graduate Fields in quantum field theory
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Graduate Divergent series in perturbation theory of quantum field theory
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Graduate Question about continuity postulates
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Graduate How does time function in quantum mechanics and its multiverse implications?
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Graduate Hydrino's and Blacklight Power
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Graduate Is the Generation of Photons Related to Electromagnetic Loops?
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Undergrad Understanding Photon Momentum and Radiation Pressure
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Graduate Is the density matrix a better way of describing quantum states than spinors?
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Graduate Does Quantum Measurement Depend on the Observer's Consciousness?
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Graduate A Paradox: Do LHV Theories Need the HUP?
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Graduate Observation Independence - what and why?
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Graduate Really delayed choice quantum eraser
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Graduate Why not a quantum of any topological genus?
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Graduate How Do Equations Determine Angular Momentum Eigenvalues in Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Does EPR represent Einstein's views very well?
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Graduate Understanding the Notation of U(p,q) in Group Theory | Wybourne Book Study
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Graduate Solutions for Griffiths and recommendation for book on problems in QM
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Undergrad Quantised Energy Levels - Bohr model
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Graduate What is the Physics of FTL-Particles and Ignorons?
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Graduate Reflection at the Quantum Level
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Graduate Position and Momentum: Understanding the Basics
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Graduate Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle?
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Undergrad Science behind magnetic monopoles in any depth?
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Graduate Quantum Electrodynamics: A Basic Textbook for Self-Study in Undergrad Years
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Graduate Understanding the Associative Axiom in Sakurai's First Chapter
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Graduate Does Quantum tunneling prove speeds greater than light?
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Graduate Hermitian conjugate of differential operator
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Graduate What Is Heisenberg Hamiltonian?
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