Quantum Physics Forum

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Graduate Is There a Limit to Time and Beyond in Quantum Physics?

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Graduate How do photons from N and S magnetic poles differ in direction or polarity?

  • jleask
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Graduate Can anything really be at rest?

  • TheAtheistKing
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Graduate Can Quantum Field Theory Be Applied to Gravity as It Was to Electromagnetism?

  • tenzin
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Graduate What does Landau mean by irreproducible measurement results?

  • alanzhu
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What Would You Ask Einstein if He Were Here Now?

  • Erdem
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Graduate Quantum Mechanics: A Brief Overview and Explanation

  • Another God
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Graduate How does the time evolution of the w_i look like for irreversible processes?

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Graduate What is the basis for Pauli's exclusion principle?

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Graduate Quantum Inflation: Becoming Unstable Through Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate Can being out of phase with time increase the impact of objects?

  • mrmango
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Graduate Wave-particle duality and the role of observation in determining locality

  • Silvershadow
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A particle in different places at the same time

  • MathematicalPhysicist
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Graduate Why does Proton not escape during Beta Emission?

  • simran
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Graduate Can Information Travel Back in Time through Quantum Physics?

  • Gnophos
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Graduate Pair Production: 2 Photos or Electron/Positron?

  • Claire84
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Graduate Electrons you come in contact with

  • Nim
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Undergrad Current theory in development within the field of Quantum Physics

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Graduate Still Particles: Impact on Our World

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High School Are colors from reflected light or re-emitted light from atoms?

  • Dissident Dan
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Can you unscramble a scrambled egg?

  • Swamp Thing
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Graduate PROJECT D32 classified until now

  • netcrazy
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Graduate Why Did Einstein Reject the Uncertainty Principle?

  • TRUGONOWFOR
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Graduate What to study for quantum mechanics?

  • Peter Pan
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Graduate Do Bosons Annihilate or Interact Differently?

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Graduate Collapse of Wave-Functions: What Does it Mean & How to Visualize It?

  • dlgoff
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Graduate What Determines the Direction of Twist in Helical Wavefronts?

  • jby
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Graduate Hawking radiation, virtual particle entanglement, and information from black holes

  • TillEulenspiegel
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Graduate Can Bell's theorem work without integrating over hidden variables?

  • NateTG
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Graduate Evidence that Atoms Have Bizzare Wisdom

  • onycho
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Graduate Calculating the Collapse of a Bohr Atom: Larmor's Formula for Power Radiation

  • Ed Quanta
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Graduate Understanding Spin 2 Particles: Examples and Intuition

  • Wahid
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Graduate 32 quantum states of an electron

  • benzun_1999
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High School How to explain stationary waves to someone unfamiliar with them

  • MrRamage
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High School Why is the uncertainty principle true?

  • frankypoo
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Graduate High energy co-valent atom bonding

  • meemoe_uk
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Graduate Superposition state and measurement outcomes for a four-eigenvalue system

  • adi_butler
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Reaching Type One Civilization: Predictions and Possibilities

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Undergrad Einstein's Nobel Prize for Photo-Electric Effect

  • einsteinian77
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Undergrad What Are Quantum Numbers and Why Are They Important?

  • benzun_1999
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Graduate Hermitean Operators: Real Eigenvalues & Orthonormal Basis in QM

  • hellfire
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Graduate Macro Entanglement: Caesium Gas 1012 Atoms

  • wolram
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Graduate Outlook for High Energy Physics (Wilczek)

  • marcus
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Graduate What Governs Quantum Fluctuations and the Universe's Creation?

  • alexsok
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High School Which is harder: classical or quantum physics?

  • Erdem
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Graduate Quantum Tunneling Probability Calculation

  • nille40
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Graduate Topological Quantum Field Theory, definition

  • marcus
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Graduate Does quantum probability determine the percentage of light reflected at water surfaces?

  • Chi Meson
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Graduate Proving the Fourier Series for a Real, Odd Function

  • robgb
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Graduate What is the X(3872) meson?

  • Dissident Dan
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Quantum Suicide: Will You Accept the Challenge?

  • meteor
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Undergrad How can the same quantum event produce different outcomes?

  • steersman
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Graduate Gravitational Distortions & Double Slit Experiment - What If?

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Graduate Prove Uncertainity Relation for Particle in a Box w/ Length L

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Undergrad Electron Penetration in Acrylic: Energy & Equation

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Graduate Geisterteilchen neutrino research on TV

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Undergrad Gyroscope & Sound in deep space

  • Poorichard2
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Graduate Are gravitons a certainty like electrons in reality?

  • Tom D
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Graduate Time lag before the photon exhibits its new energy level?

  • wolram
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Undergrad Introductory Quantum Physics Reading?

  • Dysprosium
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Graduate Entanglement, Cooper Pairs And Superconductivity

  • lavalamp
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Undergrad Plasma stage Vs. absolute zero?

  • Yossarian
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Graduate Do you know quantum conceptual framework?

  • mojofabuloso
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Graduate Can Quantum Spacetime Behave Like Turbulent Fluids?

  • Loren Booda
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Graduate How Does Quantum Theory Influence Molecular Biology?

  • beatsntoons
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Field is something more than just a region

  • benzun_1999
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Graduate Photon wavefunction and speed of light

  • thermonuclear
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Undergrad Odd request from somebody who doesn't know much.

  • Steganos
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Graduate Do gluons bind quarks or nuclei?

  • Glenn
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High School Basic understanding in quantum mechanics for high school

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Graduate Light pulse exiting a cesium cell before entering

  • quantum_foam
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Graduate Is the atomic structure correct

  • magus
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Graduate How has quantum mechanics affected the environment?

  • Teaira
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Graduate Learning quantum physics beyond introductory level

  • zare
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Undergrad How do electrons transition between energy levels without moving?

  • underscore
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Graduate Are Neutrinos the Elusive Gravitons We've Been Searching For?

  • meemoe_uk
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High School Charge on a electron & proton.

  • benzun_1999
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Graduate Is Negative Kinetic Energy Real in Quantum Systems?

  • Adrian Baker
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Graduate A Type I unit of power, the Sol

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High School Taking my knowledge on further

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Graduate Is False Equivalent to Not True in Quantum Mechanics?

  • sridhar_n
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Graduate Measuring Spin Component of Particle with S=1 & Sz=1

  • salsero
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Graduate How Do Wavefunctions in Coordinate and Momentum Spaces Form an Orthonormal Set?

  • einai
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Graduate How Does Particle Spin Influence Coulombic Repulsion and Spin Correlation?

  • eagleone
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Undergrad About neutrons, theyve been bothering me

  • kylemadigan
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Graduate How Are Conservation Laws Respected in the Dirac Field?

  • McQueen
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Graduate Molecules were held in a state of quantum superposition

  • Glenn
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Graduate Do gravitons exist in loop quantum gravity?

  • jby
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Graduate Entangled Particles Allow for absolutely crazy things?

  • MaxS
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Graduate Question about operator and eigenvectors

  • einai
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Graduate Understanding Quantum Tunneling

  • Greg Bernhardt
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Graduate What constitutes a QM observation?

  • Glenn
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Graduate What force causes the angular momentum vector to precess around Lz?

  • meme
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Graduate Why Are Degenerate Quantum States Not Orthogonal?

  • anilrapire
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Graduate Does gravity slow down light like a drag force?

  • kernelpenguin
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Graduate Favorite books on quantum mechanics?

  • Allday
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Graduate Relativity and observer disagreement on photon impact at distance

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Undergrad The quantum computer: computer of the future

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Graduate Schrödinger's cat and wave function collapse

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High School Speed of light can be attained.

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