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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Graduate Sidney Coleman's opinion on interpretation in his Dirac lecture
High School Particle Function? Particle Equation?
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High School Is All Motion Discrete or Continuous in QM?
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High School How does the EPR paradox work?
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High School Double slit experiment combined with Stern-Gerlach
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High School Wave/Particle Duality: Helical Paths & Planar Projections
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High School How does a spinor affect a wave function?
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High School Spacetime, quantum field, and aether
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High School Question about quantum superposition
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High School Wave-particle duality of atoms and molecules
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High School Copenhagen Interpretation - Superposition - confirmed?
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High School Derivative of a particle’s energy
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High School Statistical Independence in Quantum Mechanics
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High School Is Quantum Field Theory Understandable Without Advanced Mathematics?
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High School Low magnification, high resolution, experiments on photon sieves?
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High School Wave function won't collapse under a microscope?
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High School Is gravitized quanta the solution rather than quantum gravity?
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High School Are zero-point energy and inertia incompatible?
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High School What happens when 2 beams of light interact?
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High School How Does Photon Polarization Influence Electron State Changes?
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High School Quantum entanglement and energy conservation
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High School Higgs field and nuclear reactions
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High School Special Relativity violation via Quantum Mechanics?
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High School Operator as the outcome of a measurement?
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High School Virtual photons as force carriers
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High School Photon Chirality: Left, Right & Beyond
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High School In what way does light behave that is incompatible with waves?
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High School Multiple entanglements question
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High School Special Relativity and the Measurement Problem of QM
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High School Entangled particle decoherence question
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High School "Quantum Field Theory, as Simply as Possible" upcoming publication
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High School What does it mean that a spin 1/2 particle needs two full rotations?
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High School Pair production -- Seeking clarification of the explanation
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High School Does the Schrödinger Equation Imply a Deterministic Universe?
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High School Can probability waves be "focused"?
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High School What proof do we have of wave functions?
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High School Unitarity in GR+QFT: Obeying Full QG Model?
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High School Wave-Particle Duality -- When is it a wave and when is it a particle?
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High School Quantum Entanglement information transmission idea to knock down....
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High School Are there any empirical tests for the GRW extension of quantum mechanics?
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High School Peculiar View of Density Matrices: Is There a Problem?
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High School Tardigrade is first multicellular organism to be quantum entangled
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High School Quantum Decoherence: What Happens to Other Outcomes?
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High School Is the weak nuclear force attractive or repulsive or both?
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High School Is matter a particular form of energy?
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High School What is actually spinning in quantum spin?
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High School Is the highest frequency possible the inverse of Planck time?
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High School Two questions about Black body radiation
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High School Q - Double slit experiment, delayed slit selection observation
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High School Polarization of a single photon
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High School Can particles appear from "actual" nothing including no space?
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High School Does Quantum Entanglement Suggest a Fake Universe?
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High School Quantum entanglement and communications
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High School Is it really possible to slap my hand through a table?
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High School Boundary between a particle in two energy states
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High School Unraveling the Mystery: Interactions and Properties of Quantum Objects
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High School Double slit -- simple question
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High School Particles Within Atoms: Uncovering the Mystery of Forces and Vacuum
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High School Can Entangled Particles Stay Undetermined Despite Decoherence During Separation?
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High School Could a parallel universe exist?
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High School Why do superpositions occur? What causes them to occur?
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High School Objective-collapse theory, collapse for large objects
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High School Why exactly do Virtual Particles not violate Conservation of energy?
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High School Is an experiment planned to discern determinism and randomness in QM
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High School Can anyone help me with my high school paper on vacuum and quantum vacuum?
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High School Why isn’t quantum entanglement just correlation?
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High School Project on pulsars/electromagnetic quantum field
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High School Can the Motion of an Electron in Quantum Mechanics Be Reversed?
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High School Bell Test Configuration Question
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High School Copenhagen Interpretation and collapse moment
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High School Planck Length 1 Detector? Emitter?
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High School Is quantum coherence a random event?
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High School What Happens When a Photon’s Superposition Encounters a Black Hole?
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High School Question re photons/EM waves and the double slit experiment
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High School Do eigenstate probabilities change with time?
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High School Could Spontaneous symmetry breaking cause momentum change in an atom?
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High School Is quantum superposition involved in the Stern-Gerlach experiment?
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High School How does quantum superposition really work?
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High School Double Double Slit Experiment -- Question about Variations
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High School Black Holes & Stars: Quantum Entanglement Possibility?
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High School Why is there now evidence of a lag time in the photoelectric effect?
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High School Does Schrödinger's Cat Know Its Own Fate?
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High School A layman's question about entanglement
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High School Kim and Scully delayed eraser, interference curve form
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High School Entangled protons in a uniform magnetic field?
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High School Which book is best for learning about quantum entanglement?
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High School The average value of S operator
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High School Virtual Particles Momentum Transfer
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High School Do entangled particles always react in an anti-symmetric way?
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High School Electron charge and spin creating a magnetic field?
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High School Gravitational force between matter and antimatter
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High School Time travel in the quantum world
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High School A in A's reality, B in A's reality, A in B's reality in ....
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High School I am looking for a paper written by Massimo Blasone
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High School Is the Momentum Operator Hermitian? A Proof
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High School How do you tell when particles are or aren't entangled?
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High School Quantify Quantum Eraser Experiment
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High School Some questions about Wheeler's delayed choice experiment
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High School Understanding the Observer in Quantum Mechanics: Debunking Common Misconceptions
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High School Description of isolated macroscopic systems in quantum mechanics
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High School What percent of everyday-life electrons are collapsed?
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