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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Graduate Sidney Coleman's opinion on interpretation in his Dirac lecture
High School Does decoherence prevent 100% of quantum tunneling of macro object?
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High School Wavefunction and Lorentz Invariance
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High School Preference for the notation used for the wave function?
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High School Direct sum decomposition into orthogonal subspaces
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High School Help interpret quantum states of molecular rotation and torsion
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High School Virtual particles and Heisenberg
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High School [SOLVED] Regarding the Superposition of Two Plane Waves
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High School QM randomness vs chaotic determinism?
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High School Particle Movement in Quantum Mechanics
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High School Is there a probability in QM that an event happens at time t?
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High School Gravitrons vs Photons: how come light and gravity exist?
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High School The nature of anti-particles and anti-matter (a dilettante asks)
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High School Double slit experiment, expensive gear?
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High School Extremely elementary questions about QM
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High School Light, Photons, Waves, Particles: Wave-Particle Duality....
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High School What happens to excess energy when an electron gets excited by light?
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High School Interferometry: Photons Needed for Interference Pattern
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High School What is the nature of de Broglie matter wave? Is it longitudian or transverse?
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High School Is it possible to get the photoelectric effect in red color frequency?
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High School What Distinguishes Wavefunction from Superposition in Photon Behavior?
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High School Does Wavelength Affect Uncertainty in Macroscopic Objects?
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High School Device that detects if someone is looking at the device?
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High School Examples of less popular pairs of physical properties with uncertainty (HUP)
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High School Bell inequality test without polarisation?
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High School Entanglement inside a black hole
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High School Are Photons Real? New Study Challenges Assumptions
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High School What exactly is spin? Does the standard model work without spin?
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High School Quantum Computers and their special properties?
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High School The Mystery of Excited Electrons: Are They Moving Away from the Nucleus?
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High School Quantum Entanglement & Hybridization
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High School Atom energy band formation and electron allotment
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High School Quantum entanglement and simultaneity
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High School Is it possible to measure both position and momentum simultaneously?
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High School Quantum entanglement and hidden variables
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High School What do these wavenumbers correspond to in Raman spectroscopy?
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High School Does anything happen in the quantum world?
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High School How to show that particle spin includes angular momentum?
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High School What are the energy eigenvalues of a harmonic oscillator?
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High School Is a Spin 2 Particle the Key to Understanding Gravitation in Quantum Mechanics?
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High School Is there a fractional frequency of light?
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High School Electrons at Absolute Zero -- do they still move?
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High School Quantum Connection vs Entanglement: What's the Difference?
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High School What is the difference between a wave and a field?
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High School Spin And Angular Momentum of Large Objects
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High School Delayed choice experiment and FTL communication
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High School What is a photon's structure composed of?
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High School Is the photon a gauge boson for neutrinos?
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High School Does DCQE show a shift between the two "which path" results?
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High School Are electrons in atoms always in eigenstates?
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High School The energy of a molecule has what sign?
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High School For what elements does Born–Oppenheimer approximation fail the most?
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High School Is superconductivity something usual or weird?
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High School Does Destructive Interference Affect Starlight in a Double Slit Experiment?
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High School Spectral lines and superposition of states
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High School Curious about this proposition for measuring for FTL
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High School Quantum field theory and wave particle duality
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High School Collapse and unitary evolution
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High School What about if I apply HUP to myself?
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High School Can we all agree "consciousness" is not required to collapse wave function?
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High School How to evaluate whether a photon's polarization is in superposition?
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High School Can an electron remain in an exited state forever with constant energy input?
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High School What happens when ethane absorbs UV light?
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High School Why does anyone think gravity might collapse wave function?
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High School Does the bomb experiment do a measurement?
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High School Is there a resource that discusses wave collapse experiments?
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High School The wave solution to the Photoelectric effect
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High School Non-parallel double slit experiment
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High School Photon-Electron-Quanta: Explained Simply
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High School How Can We Resolve Noise from Low Frequency Quanta in Electromagnetic Waves?
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High School Is there any practical proof that quantum entanglement really works?
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High School Quantum mechanical one-liners?
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High School I have question regarding quantum physics (localizing an electron)
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High School How do particles get their spin?
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High School Idle Photons (motionless relative to the Earth's surface?)
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High School Why can gravity escape from a black hole?
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High School So this is a bit of a duplicate: Is the universe fully transparent to gravitons?
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High School What are Feynman Diagrams and how do they help explain Quantum Electrodynamics?
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High School Why doesn't the detector affect the result?
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High School Tachyons and imaginary numbers?
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High School Tensor product of operators and ladder operators
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High School How is energy transferred from a wave to a photon?
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High School Will Quantum Entanglement Lead to a 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics?
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High School What’s the necessity of the strong force?
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High School Is there another workable interpretation of the Bell Inequality?
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High School About infinity and all possibilities of Multiverse/Omniverse
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High School Understanding Waves, Particles and Probabilities
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High School Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle and determinism
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High School Sinusoidal wave function of t and x
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High School Positive Definite Cartan Matrices in Quantum Physics
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High School The relationship between the particle, the wave and the field
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High School Is the probability of a quantum outcome ever zero such as with....
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High School QM concept of photon.... still a bit of a mystery today?
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High School How does exchange of elementary particles result in a force?
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High School What is a non-local Hamiltonian?
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High School What sort of an experiment can refute QM or QFTs?
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High School Is the concept of "potential" just a mathematical model?
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High School Questions about the position of the particle
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High School Why do subatomic particles change what they do when observed?
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High School Shor's algorithm on a Google Sheet
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High School Is the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle a result of measurement inadequacies?
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