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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Graduate Sidney Coleman's opinion on interpretation in his Dirac lecture
High School Quantization & Indetermination
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High School Am I understanding the intepretations correctly?
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High School Does this connect Quantum Theory and Special Relativity?
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High School Gravity and spin 2 representation
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High School Biggest Bosenova: Milligram Range Feasible?
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High School Preserving local realism in the EPR experiment
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High School Is Quantum Interference Evidence of Multiple Universes?
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High School The deduction of Schrodinger equation, I'm stuck
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High School Does Quantum Immortality really mean we are immortal?
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High School How and why do electron quantum numbers affect bonding?
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High School Two Confusing Entanglement Scenarios
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High School Does gravity affect quantum transition amplitudes?
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High School Planck-Einstein relation and the Photoelectric Effect
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High School Understanding the Charge Field: Effects on Particle Path and Alteration in Space
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High School Kim et al, 1999 experiment and causality
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High School Could a bouncing particle theory explain quantum behavior?
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High School Correct English convention for |Psi|^2?
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High School Does Human Observation Affect the Double Slit Experiment Results?
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High School Expanding space time and Virtual particles
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High School Spontaneous increase in energy level
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High School Quantum Teleportation Question from a Curious 10 year old
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High School Why doesn't this FTL communication scheme work?
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High School Quantum state of the Universe?
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High School Bose–Einstein condensate and Hadron Collider
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High School Quantum Mechanics is not a theory?
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High School Casimir effect, energy conservation
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High School Beam splitter, one photon, one detector?
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High School Quantum Tunneling: Reflection and Transmission Probabilities Explained
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High School Why Can't Two Fermions Occupy the Same Quantum State?
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High School Understanding Particle Spins: A Beginner's Guide
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High School Possible Loophole in the uncertainty principle
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High School Alain Aspect's experiment setting
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High School Is energy the same as matter in physics?
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High School Electron gyromagnetic ratio & lattice qft
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High School Can Fermions Exhibit Negative Chemical Potential Like Bosons?
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High School Reflection of light from the mirror
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High School What is the Meaning of Abstraction in Modern Physics?
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High School Understanding Measurements / Collapse
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High School How do particles become entangled?
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High School Schroedinger Equation and Hamiltonian
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High School Inner product of functions of continuous variable
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High School Teacher needs help: Bra–ket notation for parabolas?
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High School Is Quantum Foam the Key to Understanding Unifying Theories?
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High School Dual meaning of "measurement" in QM
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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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High School A question about Bell's Inequality and hidden variables
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High School Why is there no proton degeneracy pressure?
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High School Hawking believes "God confuses us throwing dice....", why?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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High School Can you detect stationary bosons?
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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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High School Understanding Excitation Energy in Atoms: Threshold Values and Potential States
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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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High School Some very basic questions around the double slit experiment
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High School Entangled Photon Measurements: A(t) = d/c and B(t) = 5d/c
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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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High School Exciting an H-Atom: Effects on Kinetic Energy
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High School Why did Max Planck assume discrete energy values?
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High School Collision of photon and proton
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High School So Quantum Fluctuations don't exist?
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High School Is the Momentum Explanation in Marcella's Paper Consensus Among Physicists?
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High School Energy absorbed by an electron
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High School Particle pair creation probability
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High School Avoiding unexpected observations
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High School Does Heisenberg's uncertainty principle imply no free will?
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High School Gravitational radiation on transition?
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High School Does QM state that Space is made of nothing?
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High School Question regarding Light by Light Scattering
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High School Does QM implicitly define an aether?
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High School What are the potential uses of time crystals?
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High School Photon detection in the EPR experiment
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High School Is a pure state a kind of mixed states?
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High School Quantum communication satellite
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High School Unveiling the Mysteries of the Electron in an Atom: The Quantum Perspective
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High School Superposition principle: clarifications
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High School Matter/antimatter entanglement
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High School Information transfer using entanglement?
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High School Understanding Quantum Entanglement: Debunking Common Misconceptions
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High School What is the physical interpretation of n-particle correlation function in QFT?
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High School Exploring the Mystery of Electron Magnetic Moments in Quantum Mechanics
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High School Is the electron a particle or field?
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High School Does this theorem “theoretically” falsify macrorealism?
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