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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Undergrad New interpretation for the double slit experiment with light?
Graduate Are There Alternatives to the Higgs Mechanism for Explaining Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking?
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Graduate Solving Kevin's QM Mystery: Sketchy Eigenfunctions
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Graduate Do Incompatible Observables Have Common Eigenfunctions?
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Graduate What Major Should You Choose for a Career in Quantum Computing Research?
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Graduate Why can't QM just be built on a model of statespace over a background timespacespace
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Graduate What is the significance of the Dirac Sea in modern quantum theory?
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Graduate Is There Energy in the Structure of Space-Time?
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Graduate What is the significance of U Symmetry in physics?
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Graduate Unraveling the Mystery of Interference in the Double Slit Experiment
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Graduate Is the direction of a photon's momentum uncertain when emitted from an atom?
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Graduate The mathematics of measurement?
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Graduate How Does Basis Choice Affect the Hermiticity of Operators in Polynomial Spaces?
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Graduate What is the significance of various angles in NMR?
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Graduate And while I'm at it: eigenfunction of position
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Graduate How does Quantum Physics support the idea of a Resurrected Body?
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Graduate Can Identical Quantum Particles Have Different Energies?
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Undergrad Understanding Wave Nature of light
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Graduate Quantum gravity force violations
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Graduate Symmetry Breaking: How Does It Occur?
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Graduate Can Symmetry Breaking on a Banquet Table Explain Bose States in Lasers?
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Graduate Lightspeed Travel: Is It Possible?
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Graduate Quantum Fields as having infinite degrees of freedom?
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Undergrad Are operators always commutative with respect to operation +?
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Graduate Fermionic Condensate: Experiments & Comparisons
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Graduate Searching for Gauge Symmetries and Their Application in Physics
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Graduate Spherically Symmetric Potentials
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Graduate What Determines the Speed of Light in QED?
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Graduate Wave Equation for the Helium Atom/No of terms = 2 or 3?
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Undergrad I lack interest in Chemistry Help
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Graduate The Electroweak Force: Unifying the EM & Weak Forces
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Graduate Understanding the Dimensionality of Probability in Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate What is the physical interpretation of orthogonal eigenfunctions?
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Graduate QM Text Recommendation: R. Shankar's "QM" Text
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Graduate Hamiltonian is commutable with momentum operator
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Graduate Graviton Energy: Min. Amount & Universe Total
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Graduate How Do Photons Relate to Quantum Mechanics and the Uncertainty Principle?
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Quantum Computing: Opinions, News & More
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Graduate Path integral of Richard Feynman
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Graduate Understanding the Hamilton Operator and its Matrix Representation
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Graduate Quantum Level Question: Absorption Freqs of Electrons
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Graduate Explaining EPR after Bell's inequalities
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Graduate Is Griffiths' Statement About the Addition of Angular Momentum Always Correct?
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Graduate Probability Waves: Real or Not?
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Graduate Time dependent transformations
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Graduate Trivial contradiction to the 3rd postulate
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High School Is photosynthesis a form of cold fusion?
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Graduate Is a Wave in Quantum Mechanics Ever in Freefall?
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High School What Medical Radioisotopes Do Cyclo and Synchrotrons Produce?
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Graduate Understanding Perturbation Theory and Symmetry in Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate Unraveling Loop Gravity in Quantum Physics
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Graduate Hidden Variables in Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate Can Entangled Particles Enable Instantaneous Communication?
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Graduate Quantum Determinacy: Is Subatomic Event Cause Unknown or Uncertain?
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Graduate Gravitational displacement measurement
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Graduate Quantum Theory & Elasticity: Mechanics Research
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Graduate How Does Matter-Energy Duality Explain Electron Behavior?
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Graduate Bell's experiment and causality
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Artificial rain cloud machine created by Israel scientists
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Graduate Where can I find the equations for the strong nuclear force?
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Graduate Book Research RE Spin Wave technology: Pseudoscience or just incomplete?
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Graduate 8000 word dissertation on a physics topic
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Graduate Does every possible path = every possible observer?
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Graduate Everyone Has a Perfect Universe?
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Pronouncing Spinors: A Self-Adjoint QM & GR Example
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Graduate Local operations and classical communication
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Graduate How will a stream of photon (being light) looks like?
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Graduate One-dimensional Schrodinger Equation
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Graduate Superstrings and the Laws of Physics
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Graduate What is the Procrustean method for entanglement distillation?
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Graduate What Are the Mysteries Behind Quantum Mechanics and Parallel Universes?
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Graduate Is There a Disconnect Between Intuition and Mathematics in Quantum Theory?
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Undergrad The exchange particle for gravity: the graviton?
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Graduate The Halo and the Non Linear Crystal
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Graduate What is the significance of the commutator in quantum mechanics?
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Graduate Raising Operator (Harmonic Oscillator)
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Graduate Question about schroedinger equation
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Graduate How Does the Vector Potential Transform in the Flux-Tube Model for Anyons?
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Graduate Can Photons interact with Quantum Vacuum Fluctuations?
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Graduate Why don't hydrogen atoms -> neutron + neutrino?
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High School Single Photon Double Slit Experiment
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Graduate Questions about Quantum Physics: Advice Needed
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Undergrad Newbie Questions on Quantum Physics: KingNerd04
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Graduate Application of quantum theories
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Graduate Meaning of operators for observables.
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Graduate Is BB84 Quantum Cryptography Secure Against Eavesdropping?
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Graduate Understanding EM Photon Deflection: Equation and Terminology
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Graduate What Happens When a Particle Encounters a Step Potential Higher Than Its Energy?
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Graduate Fourier Analysis in QM: Practical Applications & Potential Pitfalls
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Graduate How long can a Wavefunction exist for?
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Graduate Virtual antiparticle pairs at event horizon
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Graduate The mind's 'projection' & the position observable:
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Graduate Quantum Computing and Entanglement
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Graduate Gravitational vs electromagnetic quantum trajectories
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Graduate Photoelectric effect question, help , thanks
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Graduate If light experiences gravitational redshift as said by GR
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Graduate Hawking approach to quantizing GR
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Graduate Can Quantum Fields Explain the Nature of Particles?
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Graduate Quantum chromodynamics and gravity
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Graduate Do virtual particles violate Conservation of Energy?
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Graduate Quantum Entanglement: Does Atom A Know?
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