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Undergrad Can Electric Fields Affect the Unruh Temperature of Vacuum Fluctuations?

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High School Expressing parabolic motion in bra-ket notation for year 2 students

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Undergrad Is the fine structure constant the biggest myth ever?

  • Tio Barnabe
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Graduate Qualitative Explanation of Density Operator

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High School Can quantum foam contain a non-interacting substrate that defines fundamental forces?

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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 Creating a 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 How does quantum entanglement work and does it affect everyday objects?

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High School What is the energy of virtual particles in a vacuum?

  • sirios
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High School Does the no-cloning theorem apply across parallel universes?

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Undergrad Can Different Multiplications of ψ(x) and Φ(t) Result in Solutions to TDSE?

  • yosimba2000
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Undergrad Instrumentalism and consistency

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High School Can hidden variables depend on measurement time or position?

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Undergrad Explaining quantum entanglement

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Undergrad Expectation value of energy in TISE

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Undergrad 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

  • Daniel Gallimore
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High School Why is there no proton degeneracy pressure?

  • Pedro de la Torre
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Graduate Infrared Divergences in QED Revisited

  • David Neves
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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 Does quantum indeterminacy affect the macroscopic world?

  • Mario Rossi
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Undergrad Light amplification with open-ended laser tube

  • Erik Ayer
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High School Can superconductivity be predicted from the Schrödinger equation alone?

  • star apple
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High School Schrödinger Equation for the fusion of Deuterium(2H) and a Proton(H)

  • Viridun
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High School How does measuring one entangled electron affect the other?

  • davezap
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Undergrad Terms canceling out in unitarily evolving state

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High School Why does gravity exceed Planck's radius in neutron calculations?

  • sirios
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High School Can quantum randomness explain matter-antimatter asymmetry?

  • calinvass
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Undergrad What is Meant by Measured in the Context of Electron Position?

  • Ken Ucarp
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High School A programmer's point of view of 2 quantum physics principles

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High School Do quarks and leptons have electromagnetic fields?

  • sirios
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Undergrad Confusion about Dirac Notation (interferometer)

  • Edge Of Pain
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Undergrad Classical vs quantum wave amplitudes?

  • LarryS
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Undergrad Question: Quantum Dot Laser - Energy Band

  • ulver48
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High School Can clocks explain the probability of finding a particle in motion?

  • Derek M
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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

  • Blue Scallop
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High School Poor man's double slit etc. setup

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Undergrad So, do vacuum fluctuations exist?

  • davidge
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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 Why does intensity mean anything if there's a complex number

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Undergrad Countable or Uncountable Cardinality of Multiverse?

  • FallenApple
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Undergrad Can we operate with several operators at once on a state?

  • Tio Barnabe
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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?

  • Sudarsan
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Undergrad Difference between CHSH and Bell inequalities

  • harpo
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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

  • Tio Barnabe
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High School Superposition particles in a box

  • Dillon B
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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?

  • WWCY
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Undergrad Questions Regarding Free Particles - Griffith's QM (I)

  • WWCY
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Undergrad Spin 1/2 representation of a particle

  • Tio Barnabe
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Undergrad Deriving the equations of QM/QFT

  • Tio Barnabe
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Undergrad Calculating Relativistic Phase and Group Velocity

  • jstrunk
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High School Understanding Excitation Energy in Atoms: Threshold Values and Potential States

  • Bennet
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Graduate The Lagrangian Density and Equations of Motion

  • bleist88
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Undergrad Two slit experiment w baseballs

  • Ronmarc
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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?

  • calinvass
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Undergrad Exact value for every observable in QM?

  • asimov42
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Undergrad Concerning concioussnes and the double slit experiment.

  • bobos1997
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High School Some very basic questions around the double slit experiment

  • rede96
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Undergrad (Apparent?) paradoxes - Classical/Quantum theory predictions

  • davidge
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Undergrad Does Bell's inequality violation prove measurement causes distant correlations?

  • Blue Scallop
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Undergrad How to study a particle with several features?

  • Tio Barnabe
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Undergrad Does QFT explain macroscopic objects?

  • Peter Perfect
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High School Entangled Photon Measurements: A(t) = d/c and B(t) = 5d/c

  • Point Conception
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Undergrad Why do electrons behave as classical particles when they are far apart?

  • Tio Barnabe
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Graduate Bound states and the energy-momentum relation....

  • asimov42
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Undergrad Is a Quantum-Controlled Mirror Possible?

  • Erik Ayer
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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?

  • Karagoz
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High School Conditions for paired electrons

  • Konstantinos Michos
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Graduate Are newly created particles in scattering experiments on-shell 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?

  • gamow99
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Undergrad Is Hawking Radiation unique? (And one more question)

  • Tio Barnabe
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Graduate Can zero dimensional QFT be real?

  • friend
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Undergrad Entanglement-questions photons

  • itoero
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High School Exciting an H-Atom: Effects on Kinetic Energy

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Undergrad Quantum Tunneling Max Distance

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Undergrad Hilbert space in Everettian QM

  • Posy McPostface
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High School Why did Max Planck assume discrete energy values?

  • Mikeal
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Undergrad Why is Quantum Gravity theory still not "finished"?

  • Tio Barnabe
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