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Particle vs Wave Interpretations of QM

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Graduate Showing no reflected wave in region 1 when 2L equals the de Broglie wavelength

gnome
May 7, 2004 · Replies 14 · May 12, 2004

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Graduate Is Empty Space Truly Empty or Packed with Energy?

CHORGENSOTRUFORX
May 6, 2004 · Replies 4 · May 12, 2004

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Graduate Do quantum fields arise from spacetime supercooling before particle formation?

Mike2
May 11, 2004 · Replies 6 · May 12, 2004

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Graduate Feynmans Path Integral for single Electron?

Olias
May 11, 2004 · Replies 4 · May 11, 2004

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Graduate Schoedinger Equation in Momentum space

tetchou
May 4, 2004 · Replies 2 · May 11, 2004

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Graduate Macroscopic distinction between quantum and classical forms

Loren Booda
May 11, 2004 · Replies 2 · May 11, 2004

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Graduate Does the Schrodinger equation account for the characteristic smell of a soap?

Stranger
May 4, 2004 · Replies 2 · May 11, 2004

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Graduate How did Planck's quanta explain the ultraviolet catastrophe?

bootsam
May 6, 2004 · Replies 3 · May 10, 2004

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Graduate Does the Higgs Field Explain E=mc²?

yifan
May 7, 2004 · Replies 2 · May 7, 2004

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Graduate Fields of One Fermion: Spin, Charge & Mass

Marjan
May 1, 2004 · Replies 3 · May 7, 2004

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Graduate Parity violation with respect to massive neutrinos

Creator
Apr 30, 2004 · Replies 1 · May 6, 2004

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Graduate Particle Passing Step Potential: A Wave Analysis

gnome
May 6, 2004 · Replies 2 · May 6, 2004

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Graduate Quantum Tunneling-Q's I've never seen asked

MonstersFromTheId
Apr 29, 2004 · Replies 13 · May 6, 2004

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Graduate Can the Uncertainty Principle Explain Randomness in Quantum Mechanics?

CHORGENSOTRUFORX
May 6, 2004 · Replies 4 · May 6, 2004

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Graduate Interaction between wave functions

alpha_wolf
May 5, 2004 · Replies 4 · May 5, 2004

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Graduate Reversing wavefunction collapse

Loren Booda
May 3, 2004 · Replies 4 · May 5, 2004

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Graduate Can Boson Fields Absorb Matter?

Ghetalion
Apr 30, 2004 · Replies 3 · May 4, 2004

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Graduate Quantum gravity with constants

goodsci
May 2, 2004 · Replies 3 · May 4, 2004

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Graduate Is Quantum Mechanics Controversy Finally Resolved?

juan avellaneda
Apr 25, 2004 · Replies 2 · May 3, 2004

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Graduate Is Teleportation Just a Sophisticated Form of Death?

MythioS
Apr 25, 2004 · Replies 17 · May 2, 2004

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Graduate What is the Isotope Effect and its Role in Superconductors?

johnnyb20023
Apr 27, 2004 · Replies 8 · May 1, 2004

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Graduate Dirac's Monopoles: Experiments & Theoretical Status

TeV
Apr 24, 2004 · Replies 2 · May 1, 2004

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Graduate Neurophysiology mediates classical and quantum measurement

Loren Booda
Apr 27, 2004 · Replies 6 · May 1, 2004

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Graduate Peskin & Schroeder: Is it a Good First Time QFT Book?

Norman
Apr 28, 2004 · Replies 6 · Apr 30, 2004

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Undergrad Light & Energy: Highest Velocity of All Matter?

shenanigans
Apr 29, 2004 · Replies 2 · Apr 29, 2004

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Undergrad Can Statically or Magnetically Charged Materials Absorb Free Electrons from Air?

Jdo300
Apr 28, 2004 · Replies 4 · Apr 29, 2004

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Graduate Question regarding antisymmetry of a system of fermions

karma345
Apr 22, 2004 · Replies 1 · Apr 29, 2004

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Graduate Can two spin-1 photons combine to form a graviton?

kurious
Apr 28, 2004 · Replies 2 · Apr 29, 2004

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Graduate Understanding Superstring Reality: Dr. Sylvester Gates' Puzzling Expression

cangus
Apr 27, 2004 · Replies 5 · Apr 28, 2004

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Graduate Does the moire effect model particle creation in M-theory collisions?

sol2
Apr 27, 2004 · Replies 4 · Apr 28, 2004

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Graduate Can temperature ever truly reach absolute zero?

Michael2003
Apr 27, 2004 · Replies 5 · Apr 27, 2004

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Graduate Looking for correspondence on quantum mathematics and theory

JesseBonin
Apr 4, 2004 · Replies 2 · Apr 27, 2004

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Graduate Is energy interactive and interconnected?

Andante
Apr 19, 2004 · Replies 2 · Apr 27, 2004

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Graduate Quantum Teleportation: Is It Possible?

benzun_1999
Nov 4, 2003 · Replies 32 · Apr 27, 2004

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Graduate Photon-Photon scattering. Anyone who knows about this?

EL
Apr 18, 2004 · Replies 5 · Apr 27, 2004

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Graduate What is the Ontology of Spacetime in QFT?

Stevo
Apr 14, 2004 · Replies 9 · Apr 26, 2004

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Graduate Would an AI unit, with a quantum brain, be more conscious than a Human if

Rader
Apr 13, 2004 · Replies 81 · Apr 26, 2004

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Undergrad Why Can You Only Observe the Balmer Series Lines in Hydrogen Spectroscopy?

UrbanXrisis
Apr 23, 2004 · Replies 4 · Apr 24, 2004

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Graduate Was the Universe Bigger During the Big Bang Than We Thought?

kurious
Apr 24, 2004 · Replies 4 · Apr 24, 2004

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High School Understanding of what inertia is?

jnorman
Apr 19, 2004 · Replies 5 · Apr 23, 2004

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High School Are Photons Tangible Entities or Merely Energy Manifestations?

Math Is Hard
Apr 14, 2004 · Replies 87 · Apr 22, 2004

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Graduate Does a photon take every possible path because it experiences no time?

prj45
Apr 21, 2004 · Replies 9 · Apr 22, 2004

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Graduate Is gravity the only fundamental force that pulls rather than pushes?

Atrius
Apr 20, 2004 · Replies 3 · Apr 21, 2004

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Undergrad Can a spinning mass without charge generate a magnetic field?

kurious
Apr 13, 2004 · Replies 2 · Apr 20, 2004

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High School Is Typical Energy Around 1 MeV?

newton1
Apr 15, 2004 · Replies 3 · Apr 20, 2004

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Undergrad Mark McCutcheon's final theory alternative to gravity

jnorman
Apr 19, 2004 · Replies 2 · Apr 20, 2004

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Graduate Is There a Speed Limit for Spacetime Expansion in Quantum Field Theory?

Mike2
Apr 15, 2004 · Replies 31 · Apr 20, 2004

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Graduate Can Schrodinger's Cat Thought Experiment Be Applied to Human Relationships?

cartuz
Apr 11, 2004 · Replies 2 · Apr 18, 2004

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Undergrad Good Quantum physics book WITH math

merlyn1984uk
Apr 12, 2004 · Replies 11 · Apr 17, 2004

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Graduate Resource Access Control Facility In Physics

betalimit
Apr 15, 2004 · Replies 1 · Apr 15, 2004

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Graduate Is Density a Quantum Property?

Antonio Lao
Apr 6, 2004 · Replies 12 · Apr 15, 2004

Replies: 12

Graduate Why do Photons Attract? Physics Q&A

vince_jt
Mar 27, 2004 · Replies 21 · Apr 15, 2004

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Graduate Is the true quantum the square of energy?

Antonio Lao
Apr 12, 2004 · Replies 16 · Apr 13, 2004

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Graduate Is Entanglement a Fundamental Property of Photons?

Antonio Lao
Apr 6, 2004 · Replies 7 · Apr 13, 2004

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Http:h.webring.com/hub?ring=scinobel good link for more information

betalimit
Apr 12, 2004 · Replies 2 · Apr 12, 2004

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Graduate The periodic table of quantum energy.

betalimit
Apr 11, 2004 · Replies 3 · Apr 12, 2004

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Graduate Could information be transmitted through nested energy fields?

Why
Feb 3, 2004 · Replies 2 · Apr 12, 2004

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Undergrad Finding an accessible topic for an 8-10 page modern physics paper

Jupiter
Apr 8, 2004 · Replies 7 · Apr 12, 2004

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Graduate How Practical Is Calculating Feynman Propagators for Quantum Oscillators?

rishi
Mar 8, 2004 · Replies 3 · Apr 9, 2004

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Undergrad What did Einstein mean by "God does not play dice"?

roy5995
Jan 13, 2004 · Replies 28 · Apr 9, 2004

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Graduate Is the non-abelian gauge field A real or complex valued?

popwolf
Mar 28, 2004 · Replies 2 · Apr 8, 2004

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Graduate QFT: Questions About Vector Field, Polarization Vectors & Space

alanzhu
Apr 5, 2004 · Replies 6 · Apr 7, 2004

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Graduate Can Quantum Gates Be Generalized for Higher Dimensions?

damo642
Mar 30, 2004 · Replies 2 · Apr 6, 2004

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Graduate Light Propagation in Quantum Field Theory

hellfire
Apr 5, 2004 · Replies 7 · Apr 6, 2004

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Graduate Role of the observer in quantum mechanics and cosmology

Loren Booda
Apr 4, 2004 · Replies 5 · Apr 5, 2004

Replies: 5

Graduate Question regarding 1-D PIW thought problem

karma345
Apr 2, 2004 · Replies 2 · Apr 3, 2004

Replies: 2

Graduate Variation of the Double Slit Experiment

McQueen
Apr 2, 2004 · Replies 5 · Apr 3, 2004

Replies: 5

Graduate Eistein Podosky Rosen extended

NateTG
Apr 2, 2004 · Replies 0 · Apr 2, 2004

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Graduate How Was the Schrödinger Wave Equation Derived?

wave41
Mar 29, 2004 · Replies 6 · Apr 2, 2004

Replies: 6

Graduate Strong Coupling Constant: E, Quark, Unification

kurious
Mar 27, 2004 · Replies 15 · Apr 2, 2004

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Undergrad Estimating Mass Uncertainty of Mesons Using the Uncertainty Principle

Arieniel
Apr 1, 2004 · Replies 5 · Apr 1, 2004

Replies: 5

High School Quantum information science project

Imparcticle
Mar 25, 2004 · Replies 1 · Apr 1, 2004

Replies: 1

Graduate What if Coulomb's Law Used Different Constants for Quantum Forces?

kurious
Mar 27, 2004 · Replies 3 · Mar 31, 2004

Replies: 3

High School The Physics of a Computer Processor

anubhab123us
Feb 1, 2004 · Replies 13 · Mar 31, 2004

Replies: 13

Undergrad Why do NMR peaks split according to the n+1 rule in ethanol?

lavalamp
Mar 25, 2004 · Replies 8 · Mar 30, 2004

Replies: 8

Graduate How does thermal radiation fit into quantum mechanics' description of radiation?

Hydr0matic
Mar 26, 2004 · Replies 14 · Mar 29, 2004

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Graduate Proving momentum expectation value vanishes for bound states

einai
Mar 26, 2004 · Replies 4 · Mar 27, 2004

Replies: 4

Undergrad Should we use relativistic corrections for particles?

pattiecake
Mar 25, 2004 · Replies 5 · Mar 26, 2004

Replies: 5

Graduate What is quantum field theory and why was it developed?

protonman
Mar 14, 2004 · Replies 60 · Mar 26, 2004

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Graduate Can measurement impulses be cancelled out in quantum uncertainty?

hypnagogue
Mar 25, 2004 · Replies 5 · Mar 26, 2004

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Graduate How Does Electron Diffusion Affect Current Flow in Cylindrical Metal Wires?

eddie01001
Mar 19, 2004 · Replies 2 · Mar 25, 2004

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Graduate Does Time Exist at the Quantum Level with Photons in Two Places?

picass
Mar 25, 2004 · Replies 4 · Mar 25, 2004

Replies: 4

Graduate Lon-local hidden variable theories?

venkat
Mar 10, 2004 · Replies 27 · Mar 25, 2004

Replies: 27

Graduate Quantum Entanglement and FTL Information transfer

FreshBranes
Mar 24, 2004 · Replies 2 · Mar 24, 2004

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Graduate Do neutrinos experience tunneling

PeteGt
Mar 23, 2004 · Replies 2 · Mar 24, 2004

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Graduate Physics textbook series with detailed derivations and proofs

marcos
Mar 11, 2004 · Replies 2 · Mar 23, 2004

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Graduate Simple Measurement of Atomic Nuclei Radii

Claire84
Mar 16, 2004 · Replies 3 · Mar 21, 2004

Replies: 3

Graduate Questions re Compton scattering

outandbeyond2004
Mar 17, 2004 · Replies 6 · Mar 20, 2004

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Undergrad What's the physical meaning of advanced and retared waves?

peter308
Mar 12, 2004 · Replies 2 · Mar 19, 2004

Replies: 2

Graduate Real Life Examples of Quantum Theory Consequences

PRodQuanta
Mar 8, 2004 · Replies 5 · Mar 18, 2004

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Graduate Can We Accurately Measure and Manipulate the Direction of Atomic Particles?

Antonio Lao
Mar 2, 2004 · Replies 20 · Mar 18, 2004

Replies: 20

Graduate Uncertainty Principle: Missing Target by Typical Distance

asdfghjkl
Mar 9, 2004 · Replies 3 · Mar 18, 2004

Replies: 3

Graduate Terry Giblin Double Split Experiment

Terry Giblin
Mar 17, 2004 · Replies 3 · Mar 17, 2004

Replies: 3

Graduate Where Can I Find the Original Quantum Eraser Study by Scully and Druhl Online?

venkat
Mar 14, 2004 · Replies 5 · Mar 17, 2004

Replies: 5

Graduate Q: non-local effects & 4th spatial dimension

underworld
Mar 11, 2004 · Replies 12 · Mar 16, 2004

Replies: 12

High School How can I solve these two challenging AS physics questions?

meawinner
Mar 16, 2004 · Replies 3 · Mar 16, 2004

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Graduate Is Quantum Determinism Challenged by Contextuality and Non-Locality?

cripkd
Mar 14, 2004 · Replies 11 · Mar 16, 2004

Replies: 11

Graduate Unitary Operator for Transforming f to f(x-d)

walkerj
Mar 7, 2004 · Replies 2 · Mar 15, 2004

Replies: 2

Graduate Decoherence & collapse of the wavefunction

SamLuc
Mar 13, 2004 · Replies 5 · Mar 15, 2004

Replies: 5

Graduate Exchange rate of virtual particles?

arivero
Feb 26, 2004 · Replies 27 · Mar 15, 2004

Replies: 27

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Quantum Physics

Quantum physics, or quantum mechanics, is a branch of physics that explores the behavior of matter and energy at the smallest scales, where classical physics principles break down. It introduces the concept of quantization, suggesting that certain properties, such as energy levels, are quantized and can only exist in discrete values.

Quantum mechanics encompasses wave-particle duality, where particles like electrons exhibit both wave and particle characteristics. The theory is probabilistic, relying on probability amplitudes to predict outcomes, and features phenomena like superposition, where particles can exist in multiple states simultaneously.

Quantum physics has transformed our understanding of the microscopic world, leading to technologies like transistors and lasers, and continues to provoke profound questions about the nature of reality and the role of observation in shaping it.

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