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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Graduate Understanding Barandes' microscopic theory of causality
Graduate Physical meaning for wavefunction
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Graduate Why isn't the constant force problem in QM classes?
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Graduate Anomalies of wave particle duality
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Graduate Difficult geometries - Casimir Effect
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Graduate How much is this renormalization business a problem in QFT?
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Graduate Exploring the Multiverse: The Double Slit Time Experiment
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Graduate What is the Wick Rotation mystery
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Graduate Direction of a single particle wave
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Graduate What Are the Essential Concepts for Teaching Zeeman Splitting?
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Graduate Dirac equation and path integral
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Graduate Time Evolution of Quantum systems.
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Graduate A quantum foam absorber: theoretically possible?
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Graduate Path Integral that is valid for a Particle
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Undergrad What is the difference in amplitude between red and blue photons?
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Graduate Is the Delayed Choice Experiment Truly Demonstrating Quantum Weirdness?
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Graduate Electron Double-Slit Experiment: One Electron at a Time?
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Graduate Applying Quantum Superposition to Spherical Standing Wave Structure
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Graduate Pointwise convergence of fourier expansion
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Undergrad Probability / Probability density
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Graduate Gravitation, and wavelike particles
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Graduate A question about Dirac's quantization
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Graduate How come that Esinglet < Etriplet and Hund’s rule are both correct?
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Undergrad Why do clouds form into definite cohesive shapes?
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Graduate What is the Purest Method for Measuring Low-Energy Particle Momentum?
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Graduate QFTs & Epsilons: Unraveling Beta Functions in Dim Reg
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Graduate How Does Planck's Quantised Energy Theory Address the Ultraviolet Catastrophe?
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Graduate Experimental Tests of Projection Postulate
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Graduate What are the fundamental objects in Quantum Field Theory?
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Undergrad Cerenkov Radiation/Cerenkov Light
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Undergrad How Can We Compare the Frequency and Wavelength of Gamma Rays and Visible Light?
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Graduate Understanding Quantum Entanglement: Incompatible Observables
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Graduate Schrödinger equation and equivalence principle
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Graduate Relational Solution of Measurement Problem?
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Graduate What's the explanation of W+/e+ decay?
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Graduate Measuring Particle Mass: Is Charge a Constant Property?
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Graduate Laughlins theory of emergence?
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Graduate How Does the EPR Paradox Challenge Our Understanding of Quantum Spin?
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Graduate Debunking the Myths of Teleportation: The Truth Behind Quantum State Transfer
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Graduate Can Black Holes Swallow Quantum Numbers? Investigating the Entropy Problem
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Graduate An impossible quantum theory of everything?
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Graduate Pointlike particles and the emergence of classicality
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Graduate On the definition of reallity by EPR
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Graduate Effect of wormholes on photons, ect.
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Undergrad Is the lifetime of the Z0 particle too short to be directly observed?
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Graduate Pertaining to the properties of electromagnetic radiation/ quanta
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Graduate Is Reality an Illusion of Matter and Space?
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Graduate Matrix associated to a vector (how?)
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Graduate What is the distribution of energy for beta-minus decay?
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Graduate Quantum Tunneling: Explained, Theories & Answers
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Graduate Experimental Setup Ideas for Simple Cyclotron Particle Accelerators
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Can Quanta Change Color?
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Graduate Where does the wave function of an atom collapse in the photoelectric effect?
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Graduate Understanding Einstein's photoelectric effect paper
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Graduate Is a Local Potential Always Diagonal in Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate LSZ Representation: A Simple Explanation
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Undergrad What is meant by molecular temperature ?
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Graduate Observables in Quanum Mechanics
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Graduate What is the EPR paradox and how does it relate to entanglement?
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What is the Hans Bethe website about?
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Graduate What is the physical mass and coupling?
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Graduate Uncertainty and the Speed of Light
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Graduate Proving Scalar Operator: Laplacian in 4 Dimensions
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Graduate Could a quantum computer perform the tasks of a regular computer?
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Graduate Understanding Potential Wells: Finite vs. Unbounded
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Graduate Everett and Born: Impossible Possibilities from Quantum Theory
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Graduate New model permits time travel
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Graduate Expectation value of following function
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Graduate Learning Quantum Mechanics: Classical vs Operator Based
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Graduate Wave-Particle Duality: Always Both, Never Isolated
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Graduate Wave function of a free particle
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Graduate What Is a Postulate in Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Pure and not pure states, an example
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Graduate Commutation (Ehrenfest?) relations
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Graduate How to compute the number of loops in a Feynman diagram?
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Graduate Timeflow, light, spatial speed, quarks & anti-matter questions
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Graduate Is the Manifold of Eigenfunctions in Quantum Mechanics a Valid Concept?
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Graduate Why are dimension > 4 operators non-renormalizable?
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Graduate Can the history of a particle be traced in principal?
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Graduate Quantum measurement problem paper
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Graduate Question that’s killing me this evening…
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Undergrad Effect of EMP on electrons. And other EMP related questions.
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Graduate New to QM, with questions relating to GR
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Graduate Unraveling the Mystery of Neutron Decay: A Fundamental QFT Explanation
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Graduate Do you know what this particular unitary operator is?
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Graduate Why Does the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle Affect Electron Behavior in Atoms?
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Graduate A budweiser beer (the phase operator)
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Books to Help a Newbie - Don't Hold Back!
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Graduate Looking for a QFT Exercise Buddy: A Grad Student's Quest for Mastery
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Graduate Einstein-De Hass Effect: Explained and Explored | Research Project Guide
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High School What If Light Could Travel Slower?
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Graduate Single Slit Exp: Electron Behavior - Not "Finger of God
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Graduate Explaining Hawking Radiation in Detail
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Graduate Reconciling Fermionic and Bosonic Behaviors in the Particle in a Box System
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Graduate How Can a Particle Transition Between Sides in an Infinite Potential Well?
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Graduate How Does Energy Relate to Matter, Fields, and Photons?
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Graduate Superconductivity and Quantum Field Theory
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Graduate That the two gamma rays are only one possible decay mode?
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Graduate Understanding Operators & Observables: Averages & Variance
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Graduate Quantization of Energy: Does Mass Follow?
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Graduate What are main laws of quantum physics and some other questions
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