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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Undergrad New interpretation for the double slit experiment with light?
Graduate Navigating Uncertainty: Are Particles Really That Unpredictable?
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Graduate Understanding Superselection: Rules & Interactions with Environment
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Graduate Does Time Exist for a Photon Traveling from Point A to Point B?
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Graduate Introduction to Quantum Group Theory for College Math Majors
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Graduate Knew my share of quantum phyisics
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Graduate Understanding Projectors in Quantum Mechanics: A Mathematical Approach
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Graduate Objects without quantum nature, or without relativistic nature
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Graduate Why can't negative energy virtual particles escape black holes?
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Graduate Virtual particles vs. speed of light
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Graduate How Does Quantum Tunneling Challenge Classical Physics Concepts?
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Graduate Newbie Quantum Physics Questions
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Graduate Energy-time uncertainty relation
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Graduate QFT proof from Peskin and Schroeder
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Graduate Can Bound States with Exact Energies Violate the Uncertainty Principle?
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Graduate Is the Wave Function for a Free Particle with a Rigid Wall at x=0 Correct?
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Undergrad How do I use a histogram to find a combined fit for my muon lifetime experiment?
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Graduate What Is the Meissner Effect and How Does It Relate to Superconductivity?
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Graduate How do nonclassical observations influence eventual classical outcomes?
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Graduate Qm probability, energy density and curvature
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Graduate Electrons, the nucleus and the uncertainty principle.
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Graduate Asymptotic freedom,quantum gravity
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Graduate Understanding the Motivation Behind Quantizing Fields in Quantum Field Theory
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Graduate Probablity of Walking through a Wall
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Graduate Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity: Understanding H Y = E Y and T Y = G Y
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Graduate Exploring the Concept of a Higgs Field with Brian Greene
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Graduate Quantum Mechanics Q&A: Basics for Beginners
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Graduate Can a Massive Force Carrier Turn a Two-Body System into a Three-Body Problem?
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Graduate Plane wave limit of Gaussian packet
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Graduate Understanding Energy Corrections in a Perturbed Square Well Potential
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Graduate How Did Heisenberg Develop the Uncertainty Principle and Matrix Mechanics?
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Graduate Looking for a Feynman reference (re: P, C, and CP)
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Graduate Is Electron Mass Linked to the Coupling Constant in Quantum Field Theory?
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Graduate 0th dimension and other dimensions
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Graduate Quantum Entanglement for nonphysicists
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Graduate What is the Physical Significance of Various Wave Functions?
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Graduate Could a 1/r Force Explain the Pauli Exclusion Principle?
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Graduate Why Do We Expect Proton Decay in Particle Physics?
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Graduate Mass spectometer and relativity
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Graduate Can Spin Transformations Link Gravity and Electromagnetism?
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Graduate Is interaction first or field?
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Graduate Can protons emit-absorb virtual photons?
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Graduate Calculating Energy Eigenvalues & Eigenfunctions for a 2D Particle
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Graduate Solving Wave Packet Problem: Tips & Guide
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Graduate Nonlocality & the measurement problem.
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Undergrad Why Does Reshuffling a Deck Reset Card Counting Probabilities?
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Undergrad How Can We Prove Light is a Particle Instead of a Wave?
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Graduate QM Measurement: What Do We Need to Know?
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Graduate Are Photons Always Wave Packets or Can They Be Plane Waves?
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Graduate Is it possible to complete QuantumTheory by Hidden Variables?
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Graduate What Explains Action at a Distance in Quantum Physics?
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Graduate Benjamin Seet's Questions on Math, Pion Creation, Beta Decay & Electron Levels
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Graduate Gravity's Effect on Electric Charges in a Gravitational Field
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Graduate What Are the Possibilities and Limitations of Matter Beams?
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Graduate De brolgie and noumenal telecommunications
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Graduate What Math Do I Need to Know for Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Need Help with Relativity Questions
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Graduate Neurinos are massless paricles
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Graduate Understanding the Hydrogen Atom's Emission & Absorption Frequencies
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Graduate Is wavefunction collapse limited by the speed of light?
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Graduate Schrodinger Wave Function Question
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Graduate What wave structures correspond to real state functions in quantum physics?
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Graduate ANN: quantum field theory course.
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Graduate Are Photons Responsible for Preventing Atomic Collapse?
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Graduate What is the Colour of Virtual photons?
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Undergrad About bose-Einstein condensate
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Graduate How Can Quarks Have Mass Without Physical Extensions?
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Graduate My First Question: Relativity & Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate Can Spin 2 Bosons Explain Particle Masses and Dark Energy?
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Graduate Is Bohm's Pilot Wave Theory a Viable Alternative to Standard Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Can quantum length be derived not using gravity constant?
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Graduate What Defines a Massless Particle Like a Photon?
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Is the observer truly separate from the observed?
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Graduate Does the electric force in a hydrogen atom behave like an electromagnetic wave?
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Graduate Is Boltzman's Constant related to the Fine Structure Constant?
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Graduate Can Changing Gluon Spin to 1/2 Make the Color Force Repulsive?
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Graduate A question about Hawking's path integral methods
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Graduate Could Fast-Moving Particles and Dark Energy Influence Electron Behavior?
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Graduate Can Neutron Beams Reveal Decoherence in C60 Buckyballs?
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High School Electron Energy in Atoms: What is it?
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Graduate Is it possible to make the quantum coherent?
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Graduate Help Needed: Understanding Bessel Functions & Schrodinger Equations
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Undergrad CNOT Gate: What is it & How Does it Work?
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Graduate Deterministic systems and disproving the schrodinger's cat theory
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Graduate How does non-abelian gauge symmetry affect quark interactions?
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Graduate Maximum # of mutually orthonormal eigenvectors
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Undergrad Explaining the Photoelectric Effect: What is the Energy Converted To?
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Graduate Eigenvalues of total angular momentum
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Graduate ZPE, Dark energy and Dark Matter
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Graduate Is the Uncertainty Principle simply a measurement problem?
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Graduate Very difficult problem for you
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Graduate What Lies Beyond Wave Particle Duality in Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Decoherence for dummies and experts
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Graduate Interacting virtual particles?
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Graduate Where Can I Find Online Solutions for Griffiths Introduction to QM?
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Graduate What is the difference between an operator and a function?
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Graduate Does electron have real physical mass?
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Graduate Negative energy density in a Casimir vacuum
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Graduate Superconductivity - Cooper Pair
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Graduate Quantum Teleportation across the Danube Demonstrated
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Undergrad Why is Electric Charge Quantized?
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