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Solutions for Reducing Mass: What's Possible
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Graduate Two concepts about quantum electrodynamics and quantum field theory
- guo_xiaobo
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Graduate Why are E/B fields of photon in-phase?
- Rhizomorph
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Graduate Want Proof that Photons have EM Properties
- what_are_electrons
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Graduate Momentum space and position space
- Sammywu
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Graduate Self-adjoint/hermitean operator vs observables
- humanino
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Undergrad Fourier series problem from quantum physics exam
- robgb
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Undergrad Uncertainty Principle in Physics: Eng. Phys II
- woodysooner
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Graduate Is Angular Momentum Truly Quantized in Quantum Mechanics?
- cepheid
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Graduate Double slits and virtual photons
- Bariyon
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Graduate New here: on Fourier transform of wave-function
- spex
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High School What is superfluidity/superconductivity?
- Nenad
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Graduate Can the path integral method explain the spreading of wave packets over time?
- kurious
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Graduate Particle Nature of Light versus Compton Scattering Effect
- what_are_electrons
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Graduate Why doesn't the wavefunction collapse when passing through the slits?
- meteor
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Graduate Why do electrons have angular momentum if they also behave as waves?
- gravenewworld
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Graduate Creating a First Moment in Quantum Boom or Quantum Vacuum: Does This Seem Right?
- n0n
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Graduate Incompleteness and Uncertainty
- fruitfly
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Graduate How does the commutator of position and momentum operators produce an imaginary component?
- Bob3141592
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High School Quantum Brain Teazer: See Yourself in Rear View Mirror?
- Lankyman
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Graduate Overlapping Quantum Theory & Relativity
- Gerinski
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Graduate Explain Algorithmic Cooling: "Redemption Ark" by Alastair Reynolds
- donkeyhide
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Graduate What is the Polyakov loop and Ward identity in QFT?
- marlon
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Graduate Why is the inner product conjugate symmetric?
- somy
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High School What holds the nucleus together?
- Ezekiel.
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Graduate How many neutrinos are there in a cubic in inch?
- Ezekiel.
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Undergrad QM light experiements at home.
- Glenn
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Graduate Quantum Tunneling and atomic spectra.
- misogynisticfeminist
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Graduate Why is the Electromagnetic Field Tensor in the QED Lagrangian?
- evac-q8r
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Graduate What Are David Bohm's Hidden Variables in Quantum Metaphysics?
- haroldjrbw
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Graduate Raindrop - tear drop or inner tube
- woodysooner
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Graduate What is VoDou Physics and how does it relate to the manyworlds theory?
- emortis9
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Graduate Is Quantum Mechanics Fundamentally Indeterminate?
- yesicanread
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Graduate Do Virtual Particle Pairs Radiate Energy as Gamma Rays or Repay Borrowed Energy?
- alpha_wolf
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High School What is the Historical Development of the Wave Model of Light?
- almohandes
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Graduate Does light from the nearest star reach us as quickly as light from the farthest galaxy?
- Jim Beam
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Graduate Understanding Direct Product States in Linear Algebra
- homology
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Graduate Rank 2 and rank 1 field theories
- kurious
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Graduate Gravity: Warped Space-Time or Graviton?
- Jim Beam
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Undergrad Build Your Own Cloud Chamber for Particle Detection
- amwatsonbadia
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Graduate This is for the QFT-specialists
- marlon
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Graduate Effective Potential: Krammer, Coulomb, Approximation Questions
- hiphys
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Graduate Potential barriers, wavepackets, probabilities etc.
- speeding electron
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Undergrad Left/right handed electrons - what's the difference?
- Rhizomorph
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Graduate Trapping a Single Photon: Is it Possible?
- Hyperreality
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Graduate Quantum Phase Compactification via Spacetime Expansion
- PFanalog57
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Graduate Relativity: Is Faster Light Travel Possible?
- Jim Beam
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Graduate A question in solving schrodinger's equation
- somy
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Graduate How Does Electron Size Impact Covariance in Quantum Field Theory?
- kurious
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Graduate Can the Uncertainty Principle be Applied to Nuclear Physics?
- misogynisticfeminist
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Undergrad Does a field doing no work explain self-interference in the double slit experiment?
- mee
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Graduate Can electrons occupy the same quantum state in vacuum as in solids?
- shchr
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Who said a computer cannot model itself perfectly?
- Moonrat
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Graduate Interpritations of Quantum Mechanics
- Alem2000
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Graduate Singularity prevented by repulsive force?
- kurious
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Undergrad Beginner-intermediate quantum physics books with minimal math
- s4syth
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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
- masonstjon
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Graduate Pullin: most accurate clock possible
- marcus
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Graduate Pauli Matrices and orthogonal projections
- clumsy9irl
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Graduate Can we truly understand the interaction between gravity and light?
- kernelpenguin
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Graduate Limited study of QM and all I know of operators
- theFuture
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Graduate How Does Nonlocality Impact Macroscopic Systems Like Human Consciousness?
- bladerunner
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Graduate The Quantum Measurement Problem and Decoherence
- Glenn
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Graduate Uncertainty in QM: Nature or Measurement?
- Vast
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Graduate Alternative mechanisms for spontaneous symmetry breaking beyond the Higgs mechanism
- touqra
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Graduate Why are position and momentum eigenfunctions not normalizable?
- homology
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Graduate Can incompatible observables share some eigenfunctions?
- kakarukeys
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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
- Sammywu
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Graduate What is the significance of the Dirac Sea in modern quantum theory?
- sol2
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Graduate Is There Energy in the Structure of Space-Time?
- misanthropist
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Graduate What is the significance of U Symmetry in physics?
- taylordnz
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Graduate Unraveling the Mystery of Interference in the Double Slit Experiment
- mee
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Graduate Is the direction of a photon's momentum uncertain when emitted from an atom?
- speeding electron
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Graduate The mathematics of measurement?
- homology
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Graduate How Does Basis Choice Affect the Hermiticity of Operators in Polynomial Spaces?
- homology
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Graduate What is the significance of various angles in NMR?
- jrt101
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Graduate And while I'm at it: eigenfunction of position
- homology
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Graduate How does Quantum Physics support the idea of a Resurrected Body?
- haroldjrbw
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Graduate Can Identical Quantum Particles Have Different Energies?
- touqra
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Undergrad Understanding Wave Nature of light
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Graduate Quantum gravity force violations
- touqra
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Graduate Symmetry Breaking: How Does It Occur?
- touqra
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Graduate Can Symmetry Breaking on a Banquet Table Explain Bose States in Lasers?
- touqra
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Graduate Lightspeed Travel: Is It Possible?
- Reflector
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Graduate Quantum Fields as having infinite degrees of freedom?
- evac-q8r
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Undergrad Are operators always commutative with respect to operation +?
- kakarukeys
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Graduate How to produce a fermionic condensate experimentally
- irisneo
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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?
- techwonder
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Graduate Wave Equation for the Helium Atom/No of terms = 2 or 3?
- maverick280857
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Undergrad Chemistry's role in a career in particle physics
- Chemical_Penguin
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Graduate How are the electromagnetic and weak forces unified in particle accelerators?
- Ductaper
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Graduate Why does the inner product have dimensions of length in quantum mechanics?
- alexepascual
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Graduate What is the physical interpretation of orthogonal eigenfunctions?
- ce124
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Graduate QM Text Recommendation: R. Shankar's "QM" Text
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Graduate Hamiltonian is commutable with momentum operator
- eigenpost53
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Graduate What is the minimum energy a graviton can have?
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