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Particle vs Wave Interpretations of QM
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Undergrad Particle vs Wave Interpretations of QM
High School Does the EPR experiment imply QM is incomplete?
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Undergrad Problem with section in Schwartz's QFT text
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High School Computer-simulated quantum physics?
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Undergrad Is the ground state energy of a quantum field actually zero?
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Undergrad Particle creation, energy density and the Compton wavelength
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High School Superposition - is the theory valid?
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High School How to think of molecular orbitals quantum mechanically
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Graduate Information and successive measurments
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Undergrad Why is separation constant l(l+1) instead of +-l^2?
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High School How Can a Hydrogen Atom Emit Multiple Colors Simultaneously?
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Undergrad Arguments against instantaneous collapse
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Undergrad Gauge transformation preserves what?
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Graduate Quantum synchronization description used in a paper
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Undergrad Is Simultaneity still alive in QM?
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Undergrad Is Chronology Protection Still Relevant in Modern Physics?
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Undergrad Lorentz invariance and equation of motion for a scalar field
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High School Understanding The Conscious Observer: Young's Double Slit Experiment
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Graduate Young's double slit experiment with excited atoms
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Undergrad Decoherence: is "other states lost to the environment" part?
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Undergrad Black Hole Singularity: Discussing Quantum Theories
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High School Pilot-wave is No More, Pilot-wave cracked by Bohr
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Undergrad Is this derivation of the Born rule circular in any way?
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Graduate Study Chern-Simons Invariant: Understanding 3-Manifold Measurement
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Undergrad Causality and quantum physics
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High School Is entanglement severed after the first interaction?
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High School Quantum oscillator algebra help
  • Vol
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Undergrad Casimir effect and vacuum energy and a bit of relativity....
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Undergrad Validity of a paper on the standard conclusions from Bell, etc
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Undergrad Integrals: Math & QM Definitions
  • random_soldier
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Undergrad What does it mean for particles to be "far apart" in QFT
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High School Is Simulation Theory the Key to Understanding Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate The half harmonic oscillator's ground state wave function
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Undergrad Clarification of a passage from the Schwartz QFT text
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Undergrad Checking my understanding about how massive particle states transform
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High School What really is the charge of the electron?
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Undergrad The total derivative of a wavefunction
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Graduate Independence of Operator expectation values
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Undergrad Time-dependence in probability amplitudes
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Undergrad Weinberg gives relations of SO(3)
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Undergrad How Does the Rotation Operator Affect Spin in Quantum Mechanics?
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High School Energy of an electron = energy of photon emitted(?)
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High School Heisenberg's uncertainty principle
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Undergrad Question about the uncertainty principle
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High School Quantum Mechanics: Superposition of 2 States?
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High School Treating a galaxy as a quantum system
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Graduate Why is the partition for Fermions a sum of Boltzman factors?
  • Philip Koeck
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Undergrad Why are spinors not observables?
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Undergrad Orthonormal Basis of Wavefunctions in Hilbert Space
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Undergrad How do I derive the general expression for delta p times delta x?
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Undergrad Dressed electrons are not defined as point masses....
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Undergrad Can [A,B^n] always equal 0 if [A,B] equals 0?
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Graduate Dirac's solution to the Klein-Gordon equation
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Undergrad Historical basis for: measurement <-> linear operator?
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Undergrad Exploring the De Broglie Wave and Momentum in a Trapped Particle's Excited State
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Graduate Fourier transform of outgoing spherical waves
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High School Creation and annihilation operators in particle physics
  • Sophrosyne
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Undergrad Hermitian Operator Proof - Question
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Undergrad Polarizing filter not extinguish the wave although 90 degree polarizers
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Undergrad On Heisenberg's uncertainty principle
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High School Does anybody think that there is an underlying reality?
  • clive williams-not
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Graduate Query in Zeidler's Volume II QFT
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Insights Interview with Astrophysicist: Adam Becker - Comments
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Insights Why the Quantum | A Response to Wheeler's 1986 Paper - Comments
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Undergrad Light Through Matter: Quantum Mechanics & Complex Vectors
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Undergrad Feynman, Hibbs Transition Amplitudes and Energy
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High School Dynamics of the double slit experiment
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Undergrad How does the Franck-Hertz experiment demonstrate energy quantization in atoms?
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Undergrad Solving SE for Particle in Box: Energy Level Relation
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Graduate 2-d and 3-d model for contact resistance of M/n-Si (book?)
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High School Quantum mechanics defies causal order
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Graduate Nanotube diameter versus emitting wavelength
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Undergrad Photons in the photoelectric efect
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High School Entangled electrons in the Stern-Gerlach experiment?
  • Quarky nerd
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Graduate Measuring the spin of a moving Dirac spinor particle
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Undergrad Double slit one source same as no slits with two sources?
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High School Is there an experiment proving observer dependency exists?
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High School Double slit experiment: What if the detector is removed quickly?
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High School Meaning of Wave Function Collapse
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Android robotics, quantum physics lab
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Undergrad Would this experiment prove consciousness causes collapse
  • john taylor
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Undergrad What is the highest frequency of electromagnetic radiation?
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High School Is this a "fair" description of entanglement for a student?
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Undergrad Inner products on a Hilbert space
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Undergrad Entangled Photons in Opposite-Configured Mach–Zehnder Interferometers
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Undergrad Can Schrodinger's cat apply to things other than alive/dead?
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Graduate Reproducing Quantum Experiments
  • Dennis Plews
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Undergrad Is the degeneracy of N2+ different from N2?
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High School Quantum Entanglement: Hidden Information vs. Time
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Graduate Mathematical Quantum Field Theory - Interacting Quantum Fields - Comments
  • Urs Schreiber
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High School What is the Role of Sub-Particles in the Existence of Matter?
  • Marco DF
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Graduate The stability of matter: is really Maxwell wrong? (part 2).
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Undergrad Green's functions in QFT for the gifted amateur
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High School Measure Quantum States w/o Observation: Is It Possible?
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Undergrad Does 'fungibility' exist in physics?
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Undergrad Dirac equation as one equation for one function
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Undergrad HHL Algorithm for Solving Linear Equations
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Undergrad Radiofrequncy Photon Wavefunction
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Graduate Why do copper, gold and cesium have special colors?
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Undergrad Can an observed atom collapse back into a wave?
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High School Observation in the double-slit experiment
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