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Particle vs Wave Interpretations of QM
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Undergrad Particle vs Wave Interpretations of QM
Graduate Particle Nature of Light versus Compton Scattering Effect
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Graduate Double Slit Experiment: Explaining Wavefunction Collapse
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Graduate Something that has always confused me
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Graduate Creating a First Moment in Quantum Boom or Quantum Vacuum: Does This Seem Right?
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Graduate Incompleteness and Uncertainty
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Graduate Exploring the HUP: Real Numbers and Imaginary Components
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High School Quantum Brain Teazer: See Yourself in Rear View Mirror?
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Graduate Overlapping Quantum Theory & Relativity
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Graduate Explain Algorithmic Cooling: "Redemption Ark" by Alastair Reynolds
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Graduate Understanding Polyakov-Loop & Ward-Identity in QFT
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Graduate A question about the linear product
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High School What holds the nucleus together?
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Graduate How many neutrinos are there in a cubic in inch?
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Undergrad QM light experiements at home.
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Graduate Quantum Tunneling and atomic spectra.
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Graduate Why is the Electromagnetic Field Tensor in the QED Lagrangian?
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Graduate What Are David Bohm's Hidden Variables in Quantum Metaphysics?
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Graduate Raindrop - tear drop or inner tube
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Graduate What is VoDou Physics and how does it relate to the manyworlds theory?
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Graduate Is Quantum Mechanics Fundamentally Indeterminate?
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Graduate Do Virtual Particle Pairs Radiate Energy as Gamma Rays or Repay Borrowed Energy?
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High School What is the Historical Development of the Wave Model of Light?
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Graduate Exploring the Mystery of Light Speed: Nearest Star vs. Farthest Galaxy
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Graduate Understanding Direct Product States in Linear Algebra
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Graduate Rank 2 and rank 1 field theories
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Graduate Gravity: Warped Space-Time or Graviton?
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Undergrad Build Your Own Cloud Chamber for Particle Detection
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Graduate This is for the QFT-specialists
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Graduate Effective Potential: Krammer, Coulomb, Approximation Questions
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Graduate Potential barriers, wavepackets, probabilities etc.
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Undergrad Left/right handed electrons - what's the difference?
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Graduate Trapping a Single Photon: Is it Possible?
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Graduate Quantum Phase Compactification via Spacetime Expansion
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Graduate Relativity: Is Faster Light Travel Possible?
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Graduate A question in solving schrodinger's equation
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Graduate How Does Electron Size Impact Covariance in Quantum Field Theory?
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Graduate Can the Uncertainty Principle be Applied to Nuclear Physics?
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Undergrad Fields & Energy: Path of Least Resistance?
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Graduate Exclusion Principle: I'm Confused!
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Solve the Mystery: Who Said "A Computer Cannot Make a Perfect Model of Itself"?
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Graduate Interpritations of Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate Singularity prevented by repulsive force?
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Undergrad Beginner-intermediate books on quantum physics
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High School Suggestions on any good Niels Bohr sites
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Graduate Designing An Electron Beam Gun for Two-Slits Experiment
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Graduate Pullin: most accurate clock possible
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Graduate Pauli Matrices and orthogonal projections
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Graduate Can we truly understand the interaction between gravity and light?
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Graduate Limited study of QM and all I know of operators
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Graduate How Does Nonlocality Impact Macroscopic Systems Like Human Consciousness?
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Graduate The Quantum Measurement Problem and Decoherence
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Graduate Uncertainty in QM: Nature or Measurement?
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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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