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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Graduate Sidney Coleman's opinion on interpretation in his Dirac lecture
High School Do Quantum Fields Move Relative to Each Other?
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High School Time average value of Spin operator
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High School How do we maintain a system in a non-dertministic state?
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High School Do fractional spins like 4/5 exist?
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High School How long does it take to detect entanglement?
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High School Is String Theory Built On Funny Math?
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High School In parallel universes, everything that can happen happens, but why?
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High School Ways to understand the delayed entanglement swapping
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High School Is the electron of Phosphorus entangled with its nucleus?
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High School Does Locality in Quantum Mechanics Exclude Retrocausality?
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High School "We cannot measure both position and momentum...."
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High School Transfering spin onto a macroscopic object
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High School How to shorten this speech about BH?
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High School What is quantum entanglement and how it effects the space-time
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High School Quantum Field Theory and Electrcity
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High School Why doesn't the plate interact with the particle in double slit?
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High School Light and Reflections in Space
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High School Is Schrodinger's Cat a True Reflection of Quantum Uncertainty?
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High School Conjugation , involving operators in Dirac Notation.
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High School Projection Operators: Explaining |m|2*|m|2 = |m|4
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High School Photon particle independent of wave question
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High School Polarization Basis: Measuring Entangled Photons in 45/135
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High School Testing spacetime collapse at absolute zero
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High School What, in essence, distinguishes light from matter?
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High School Feynman experiment with bullets
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High School F = dP/dt on subatomic particles
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High School Do Black Holes Destroy Information?
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High School Is Max Born's probabilistic proposal artificial?
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High School Quick question about Bloch's sphere
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High School The setup of "2012 entanglement between photons that (....)"
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High School Can we observe 2 electrons at the same time?
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High School Library of Babel quantum state
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High School Subatomic particles and the observer
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High School A view of the double-slit experiment
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High School CDP: Non Classical Correlations at Spacelike Separation
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High School Quantum entanglement and special relativity
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High School The HUP in absence of observers
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High School A couple of questions about photons and superposition..
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High School What is the minimum voltage required to get characteristic spectrum
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High School Electron Gun for a Grade 9 Physics Project?
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High School Is quantum physics "retro-deterministic"?
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High School Can a Particle Near a Black Hole Eliminate String Vibration?
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High School Semiconductor's sensistivity to light
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High School Why 50% of entangled photons pass through the polarizer?
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High School What is the underlying reason for stimulated emission?
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High School What does the 'space' inside an atom consist of?
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High School Single photons and expanding spheres of light
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High School Does Observing an Entangled Particle Affect Its Superposition?
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High School Exactly why FTLC is impossible with entangled photons?
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High School Probability of a photon passing through a filter
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High School Why do scientists claim that there's true randomness?
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High School The Impact and Relevance of Quantum Mechanics: An Interview with an Expert
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High School Relation between spin and symmetry of wave function
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High School Understanding Causality in Quantum Mechanics
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High School Understanding the Limits of Measurement in Quantum Mechanics
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High School How do the group and phase velocities of pilot waves compare?
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High School Planck level effects of virtual particles
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High School How do we know we have a single-photon source?
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High School Does Thermal Radiation from Ordinary Materials Span All Wavelengths?
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High School Black hole emits quantum particles from the mass sucked in?
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High School Amplitude of a photon's E and B fields
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High School Do systems continually evolve?
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High School Hawking radiation and entanglement
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High School Can Entanglement be Used for Faster-than-Light Communication?
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High School Questions about Identical Particles
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High School If electrons are waves, what causes them to change direction?
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High School Spin and polarizations in momentum space
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High School Pauli Exclusion Principle: Quantum Coherence & Range
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High School Do atomic nuclei transfer momentum to electron orbitals?
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High School Questions about Parity: Learn How Intrinsic Parity Relates to State Vector
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High School Explanation of Quantum Entanglement Please
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High School What happens to things that aren't ever observed?
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High School What Should You Research About Uncaused Quantum Events and Their Implications?
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High School Where Can I find the Einstein vs. Bohr Full Debates
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High School Measuring entangled particles along several angles
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High School How does the Doppler shift explain changes in photon energy without interaction?
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High School Cooper pairs and Superconductors
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High School How to increase wave amplitudes
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High School What is the result of putting a detector on both slits in the 2 slit experiment?
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High School Interference pattern intensity
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High School Uncertainty Principle: Velocity, Position and Energy
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High School Understanding the Conversion of Energy Forms in Particle Interactions
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High School Why do material particles interact?
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High School Understanding Reflection in Light: Electromagnetic Interactions with Matter
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High School Question about Unitary Operators and symmetry
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High School Why do photons stimulate emission in atoms?
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High School Delayed Choice Quantum Eraser Experiment Results
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High School Preserving causality in the EPR experiment
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High School (N+1) enhancement of spontaneous emission, why not (N+1/2)
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High School How do you calculate the uncertainty in T using graphs?
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High School Quantum Theory and its Precision
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High School Uncertainty Principle & Non-Commuting Observables
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High School Entanglement and pair-production and annihilation
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High School Is it time to rebuild quantum theory?
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High School Understanding Bell’s inequality
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High School Where is the mistake -- violation of Heisenberg uncertainty
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High School Quantum Superposition: Is It Limited or Unlimited?
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High School Can we build a microscope to see an atom?
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High School Double slit experiment question
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High School What happens to virtual photons when an EMF is extinguished?
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