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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Undergrad Valid local explanation of Bell violations? (Pegg et al., 1999; 2008)
Undergrad How Does Shankar Transition from Sums to Integrals in Feynman Path Integrals?
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High School Schroedinger Equation and Hamiltonian
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Undergrad Are RF Photons Present in NMR Spectroscopy?
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Graduate Pilot Wave Theory & Non-Locality
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High School Inner product of functions of continuous variable
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Undergrad Contour integral from "QFT for the gifted amateur"
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Undergrad Invariant element integrand
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Undergrad Multiplying wavefunction with complexnumber.
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Undergrad Trying to understand Dirac Hamiltonian
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Undergrad Can Electric Fields Affect the Unruh Temperature of Vacuum Fluctuations?
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High School Teacher needs help: Bra–ket notation for parabolas?
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Undergrad Is the fine structure constant the biggest myth ever?
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Graduate Qualitative Explanation of Density Operator
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High School Is Quantum Foam the Key to Understanding Unifying Theories?
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Undergrad Does Conscious Observation Affect the Outcome of the Double-Slit Experiment?
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Graduate Relativity implies antimatter?
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High School Dual meaning of "measurement" in QM
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Graduate ‘Transverse Field Ising Spin’-compatible Super Hamiltonian
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Undergrad Does slowing light with a BEC change any of its properties?
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Undergrad Is the Quantum Eraser Experiment Misunderstood in Pop Science?
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High School Entanglement: How Does it Work and Its Implications in Everyday Life?
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High School What is the energy of virtual particles in a vacuum?
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High School Quantum Mechanics & Parallel Universes: No-Cloning Rule
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Undergrad Can Different Multiplications of ψ(x) and Φ(t) Result in Solutions to TDSE?
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Undergrad Instrumentalism and consistency
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High School A question about Bell's Inequality and hidden variables
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Undergrad Explaining quantum entanglement
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Undergrad Expectation value of energy in TISE
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Double slit interference: moving waves
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Graduate Quantum measurement with incomplete basis?
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Undergrad 3 polarizers -- correlations of correlations
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Undergrad The uncertainty principle and moving reference frames
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High School Why is there no proton degeneracy pressure?
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Graduate Infrared Divergences in QED Revisited
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Graduate Is Quantum Chaos Random or Deterministic?
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Undergrad Confusion with the Photoelectric Experiment
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Undergrad Has Quantum Mechanics Solved the Measurement Problem?
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High School Hawking believes "God confuses us throwing dice....", why?
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Undergrad Light amplification with open-ended laser tube
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High School Superconductivity & Quantum Emergence
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High School Schrödinger Equation for the fusion of Deuterium(2H) and a Proton(H)
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High School Superposition or just unobserved states?
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Undergrad Terms canceling out in unitarily evolving state
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High School Learning Gravity: Gravitons nor mass of a particle
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High School What caused the asymmetry between matter and antimatter in the early universe?
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Undergrad What is Meant by Measured in the Context of Electron Position?
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High School A programmer's point of view of 2 quantum physics principles
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High School Electromagnetic fields of fundamental particles -- help please
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Undergrad Confusion about Dirac Notation (interferometer)
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Undergrad Classical vs quantum wave amplitudes?
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Undergrad Question: Quantum Dot Laser - Energy Band
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High School Can clocks explain the probability of finding a particle in motion?
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High School Some questions about "superdeterminism" and Bell's Theorem
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Undergrad Binding energy in QM and in GR
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High School Non-deterministic Hidden variables that can't be described by math
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High School Poor man's double slit etc. setup
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Undergrad So, do vacuum fluctuations exist?
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Undergrad Wave function measurement question
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Undergrad How are degrees of freedom understood in QM?
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Undergrad Fourier conjugates and momentum
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Undergrad Can Spin State Recombination Restore the Original Quantum State?
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Undergrad Countable or Uncountable Cardinality of Multiverse?
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Undergrad Can we operate with several operators at once on a state?
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High School Quantum entanglement and potential wells
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High School Is there a tension between QM and QFT?
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Undergrad Does the Compton Effect Challenge the Particle Nature of Light?
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Undergrad Difference between CHSH and Bell inequalities
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High School Can you detect stationary bosons?
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Undergrad When does superposition collapse or entanglement take place
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Undergrad Calculating Helicity in Non-Relativistic Quantum Mechanics using Pauli Matrices
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High School Superposition particles in a box
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High School Wave function deterministic yet not classical
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High School Black hole information paradox and determinism
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Undergrad Can Bound States Leak and How Do Scattering States Behave?
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Undergrad Questions Regarding Free Particles - Griffith's QM (I)
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Undergrad Spin 1/2 representation of a particle
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Undergrad Deriving the equations of QM/QFT
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Undergrad Calculating Relativistic Phase and Group Velocity
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High School Understanding Excitation Energy in Atoms: Threshold Values and Potential States
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Graduate The Lagrangian Density and Equations of Motion
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Undergrad Two slit experiment w baseballs
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High School Psi-ontic view, macro objects and decoherence
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High School How Does Detector Placement Affect Ratios in the Double Slit Experiment?
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Undergrad Exact value for every observable in QM?
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Undergrad Concerning concioussnes and the double slit experiment.
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High School Some very basic questions around the double slit experiment
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Undergrad (Apparent?) paradoxes - Classical/Quantum theory predictions
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Undergrad How do you understand EPR & Bell's Theorem?
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Undergrad How to study a particle with several features?
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Undergrad Does QFT explain macroscopic objects?
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High School Entangled Photon Measurements: A(t) = d/c and B(t) = 5d/c
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Undergrad Why do electrons behave as classical particles when they are far apart?
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Graduate Bound states and the energy-momentum relation....
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Undergrad Is a Quantum-Controlled Mirror Possible?
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Graduate Virtual Fermions and Pauli Principle
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High School How is Bohr's atom model convenient with quantum mechanics?
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High School Conditions for paired electrons
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Graduate Observable particles as asymptotic states....
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Undergrad Hamiltonian after transformation to interaction picture
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Undergrad Does QM allow for a photon to travel at 800,000 km/s?
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