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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Graduate Sidney Coleman's opinion on interpretation in his Dirac lecture
High School Electron angular momentum, gyroscope?
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High School Is a black hole a massive ball of photons?
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High School View double slit from other end
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High School "Test of wave function collapse suggests gravity is not the answer"
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High School Does the Higgs Boson really have 0 spin?
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High School Are electronic transitions a result of a single photon?
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High School Question about quantum entanglement
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High School Sun powered by quantum tunneling - question
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High School Reduced Planck Constant vs Dark Matter?
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High School Turbulence and Quantum Mechanical Probabilities
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High School Energy needed for electron's change in energy level in an atom
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High School Understanding Light Quantization
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High School Which one is correct? (the Matrix or Wave formulation of QM)
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High School Spin collapse in a magnetic field
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High School Understanding the Interactions of Energy with Quantum Particles and Strings
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High School Wave Function Collapse using faulty recording devices.
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High School Traveling wave solution notation
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High School Are photons entangled with a component of the atom that emitted them?
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High School Quantum info and its indestructability
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High School Understanding Circumflex Operators: Get Help Now
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High School Question about this equation for the expectation value
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High School How does a photon not "feel" electromagnetism?
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High School Beginner Question Regarding Entanglement
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High School How Does the Observer Paradox in Anthropology Reflect on Cultural Understanding?
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High School Photon absorption -- What happens to the excess energy?
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High School Does the energy of an electron vary in the sublevels?
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High School Is there a magnetic interaction between light and charged particles?
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High School The match rates in Bell Tests -- Lower than 50%?
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High School Question about QM and Neuroscience
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High School Does Quantum Eraser Prove That Intention Does Not Create Physical Reality?
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High School Translating Stephen Hawking: Plus/Minus Term & Black Holes
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High School Theory about gravitons and space warping
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High School Modern Physics: Charge of Discovered Particles
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High School How is the measurement done for the double slit experiment?
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High School Understanding Single Photon Detection in the Double-Slit Experiment
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High School Photon detection methods -- do they always involve displacing an electron?
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High School Double slit question - how far apart can the slits be?
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High School How to construct 4 in+out Feynman diagram from 3 Feynman diagram?
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High School Questions about double slit experiments
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High School Why do we know all photons have same speed as the speed of light?
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High School U.Delft Quantum Results - Is the explanation parsimonious?
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High School Double slit experiment with electrons
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High School Particles with small Wavelengths passing through huge slits?
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High School Fermions, Pauli and antisymmetry
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High School Does the wave function change from the viewpoint of the photon?
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High School Do Photons Decay or Have a Half-Life?
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High School Gravitational signature of a photon in a double slit experiment
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High School Is a photon an excitation of the electromagnetic field?
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High School What does the energy of a photon convert to with interference?
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High School Entanglement and action at a distance -- What coordinate system?
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High School Is an electron beam affected by photons?
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High School Please gradually expain principles of atomic clocks
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High School Planck's equation and upper and lower bounds on the energy of a photon
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High School How do we know that the measurement affects the result?
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High School Particle annihilation -- Is it instantaneous?
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High School Does retrocausality follow from logic?
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High School A question about the double-slit experiment
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High School Destructive interference and conservation of momentum
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High School Quantum eraser and time travel
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High School Will brain-computer interfaces reveal more about QM?
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High School How Do Active and Passive Transformations Differ in Quantum Mechanics?
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High School Is a Quantum Entanglement Camera the Key to Seeing Into the Future of Earth?
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High School Cold vs hot on the atomic scale
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High School Dual slit with controlled electron trajectories
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High School Question about energy needed by electron to change energy levels
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High School Can it escape the event horizon if the wavelength is long enough?
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High School 1-photon emission possible from electron-positron annihilation?
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High School 2D-cross-double-slit experiments for understanding quantum world
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High School What causes loss of quantum coherence?
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High School Actions of subatomic particles while under observation
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High School Could Quantum Fluctuations exist W/out the presence of Spacetime?
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High School Regarding the coherence of a photon pair decaying from Higgs
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High School Can a Thought Experiment with Dice Challenge Bell Inequalities?
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High School How long before someone builds a machine to predict the future?
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High School Clarification about Bohr's atomic model
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High School How does a wave collapse not violate the speed of light?
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High School Time Crystals & Spin: Engineering a New Reality?
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High School Are Spin Operators Along Opposite Cartesian Axes Compatible?
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High School Wave-Particle Duality Controlled by Single-Photon Self-Entanglement
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High School Does the energy 6.626x10^-34J have any special meaning?
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High School What is the pattern in a double slit experiment near the slits?
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High School Does an electron have kinetic energy when attached to a proton?
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High School What does the unit "Js" of the Planck constant mean?
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High School Basic Question: What are energy levels, of photons, for example?
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High School Quantum Entanglement Communication Radio
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High School How does the electric field of an electron compare to its probability wave?
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High School How to differentiate b/w two collapsed values in Bell States
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High School Simulators for Quantum Mechanics
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High School Can spontaneous emission be considered a thermodynamic process?
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High School When the wave function collapses, how long is it collasped?
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High School A few basic questions about the absorption/emission of photons
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High School When are particles in a superposition of states?
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High School Time-reversal of an unknown quantum state
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High School Speed of electrons in a 2-slit experiment
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High School Do photons, phonons and electrons have mass?
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High School Can a particle / wave pass through a sheet of material?
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High School Uncertainty Principle versus spin alignment
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High School Does the future affect the past in a quantum world?
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High School Stern-Gerlach experiment - please confirm this surprising result
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High School Are electromagnetic wavelength and quantum wavelength the same thing?
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