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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

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High School How Are 2D Standing Waves Extended to 3D in Quantum Mechanics?
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High School Gram-Schimidt orthonormalization for three eigenvectors
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High School Why do photons only interact with charged particles?
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High School Can someone help me understand as well as validate this article
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High School Understanding Virtual Particles: Speed and Rest Mass
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High School Beta decay and the down quark.
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High School Energy Band Diagram: K.E. & P.E. of Electron in Semiconductor
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High School What causes quantum uncertainty?
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High School Is information lost when a photon is absorbed?
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High School Entanglement & Wave Function Collapse
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High School Is Born's Rule Commutative in Quantum State Measurements?
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High School Questions on QFT & QM: Is QM or QFT Absolute Time?
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High School Quarks and Antiquarks in a baryon
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High School Can a Quark Tunnel Out of a Proton?
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High School Is a Universe Without Parallel Universes Possible in the Multiverse Theory?
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High School Might all physical quantities be quantized?
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High School IB Physics Extended Essay - Quantum Levitation
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High School What Are Quantum Fields and How Do They Relate to Particles?
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High School I formulating a research question for my Extended Essay
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High School Confusion over spin measurements
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High School Speed of light with quantum path integrals
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High School Quantum microphone and phonons
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High School The Human Eye as a Detector in Double-Slit Experiment
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High School QFT & QM Questions (about time, locality, gravity, etc.)
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High School What am I missing here? (QFT: ##e^- - p## scattering)
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High School FTL Communication: Closing Bell Test Loopholes for Quantum Integrity
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High School Multiple Histories theory by Richard Feynman
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High School Can quantum entangled particles be split and sent into a black hole
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High School How does the Higgs field “Give mass”?
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High School Is this article's reliability questionable?
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High School The Cat's Perspective: Can Macroscopic Bodies Be in Superposition?
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High School Cherenkov radiation double slit experiment
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High School From where did the ##ie\gamma## come into the picture? (QED)
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High School Quantum Entanglement Violates the Laws of Physics
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High School Probability of finding a particle
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High School General form of electromagnetic vertex function in QFT
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High School Shrødinger equation & electrons jumping between atoms
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High School Quantum Wave & Principle of Least Action
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High School Entanglement when I "produce" positron-electron pairs one at a time
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High School How do you find the Lagrangians for different fields?
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High School Understanding Quantum: The Particle/Number Duality
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High School Exploring the Nature of Photons: Position, Speed, and Emission/Absorption
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High School Quantum theory for high-school students
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High School Clarification of Notation - Fourier decomposition of fields in QFT
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High School Photon exchange in molecular bonds
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High School Phase shift in Mach-Zehnder interferometer
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High School Loss of information and Quantum Determinism
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High School Understanding Color & Temperature
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High School Are photons the wave sources of Huygens-Fresnel principle?
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High School Double Slit Wave Interference With Single Electrons
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High School Was Bell's hypothesis verified?
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High School Measuring a circle and the Uncertainty principle
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High School "Slowly varying" potential for WKB approximation
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High School Heisenberg's uncertainty principle - does it always apply?
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High School Potassium or other minerals and the photoelectic effect
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High School Is spacetime a quantum error correcting code?
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High School Does a photon contain a pair of spinning charges?
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High School What's causing the "spooky action at a distance?"
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High School Double Slit experiment and the path of least Action
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High School Is it possible to change a fundamental property of a particle?
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High School How can you ensure that the particle has already been entangled?
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High School How do we know the electron is not a field of energy?
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High School Can Molecules Have Defined Position and Momentum Before Measurement?
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High School Bohr's duality paradox 100 years later?
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High School Can Electrical Repulsion Distort Electron Orbits in Atoms?
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High School Do Entangled Photons React to possible Photon-Photon Collisions?
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High School What Is the Role of Density Matrices in Describing Quantum Mixtures?
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High School Proietti 2019 experiment: Doubt in measuring A1(B1)
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High School Can superposition be attained for multiple states at once?
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High School Is this a good way of "dumbing down" superposition?
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High School Variations of the Double Slit?
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High School Interference of Light in the Double-Slit Experiment
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High School So can I use "wave particle duality?"
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High School Is quantum superposition the same as regular superposition in physics?
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High School Particle properties conclusion from no-slit diffraction
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High School How do I explain quantum superposition?
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High School How can a mirror reflect 99,999% of incident light?
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High School Taking Quantum Computers into Space
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High School Is Born's rule really verified?
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High School Are there unverifiable assertions about probabilities
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High School Why is L=2 not acceptable for carbon according to Hund's second rule?
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High School Delayed choice quantum communication - "Berlin riddle"
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High School Instant Quantum Communicator: Does Time Dilation Affect Voice?
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High School Does the brain use quantum mechanics?
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High School Quantum entanglement mechanics
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High School Quantum field theory and the collapse of the wave function
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High School Question about how the nabla interacts with wave functions
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High School Entangled Photons: Adam Becker's QM Book "What is Real?
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High School Does Entangled Particle Detection Prove the Spooky Action at a Distance?
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High School Would there be an upper limit to density in QM?
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High School Does the Universe Consist of Information Rather Than Stuff?
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High School Thought experiment -- A radioactive decay detector and randomness
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High School Quantum entanglement comunication
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High School Help with Bell states and measurements
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High School How are outer products quantum states?
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High School Quantum entanglement phenomenon
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High School Doesn't the choice of measurement prove free will
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High School Help with math in a quantum circuit
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High School Whats the principle behind Schuster Focusing?
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High School Can someone explain to me what's the Schrodingers cat?
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