# Quantum Physics Articles

### Massive Meets Massless: Compton Scattering Revisited

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Introduction In a previous article entitled "Alternate Approach to 2D Collisions" we analysed collisions between a moving and stationary object by defining…

### A Beginner's Guide to Baryons

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Introduction At the beginning of the 20th century it was thought that all matter consisted of only three particles: the electron, the neutron and the…

### Understanding Superposition

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IntroductionOne should first and foremost understand that superposition has both a mathematical an a physical meaning, or rather it originates as…

### A Classical View of the Qubit

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This Insight article is part of my paper Foundations of quantum physics III. Measurement, featuring the thermal interpretation of quantum physics. See…

### Against "interpretation"

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I am against "interpretations" of Quantum Mechanics (QM) in a sense in which John Bell [1] was against measurement in QM and Travis Norsen [2] is against…

### The Quantum Mystery of Wigner's Friend

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In this Insight I will introduce the quantum mystery called Wigner's friend'' using Healey's version [1] of Frauchiger and Renner's (FR's) version [2]…

### The Unreasonable Effectiveness of the Popescu-Rohrlich Correlations

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In this Insight, I will show how the Popescu-Rohrlich (superquantum) correlations provide an unreasonable advantage in a particular "quantum guessing game''…

### Interview with Astrophysicist Adam Becker

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Adam Becker is an astrophysicist and science writer whose first book "What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics" just hit…

### The Main Conceptual Ideas of Anyon Demystified

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Every quantum physicist knows that all particles are either bosons or fermions. And the standard textbook arguments that this is so do not depend on the…

### Interview with a Physicist: David J. Griffiths

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We are pleased to introduce David J. Griffiths. Professor Griffiths is one of the most successful physics textbook writers.  Odds are if you studied…

### Tools to Enrich our Quantum Mechanics Interpretations Discourse

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IntroductionMany times, we encounter ourselves tangled into some Quantum Mechanics (QM) interpretations debates. Unfortunately, the standard…

### Higher Prequantum Geometry V: The Local Observables - Lie Theoretically

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This article discusses how from the previous considerations naturally follow the concepts of local observables of local field theories and…

### Higher Prequantum Geometry III: The Global Action Functional - Cohomologically

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The previous article ended with the concept of classical locally variational field theories, of which a class of examples are…

### Higher Prequantum Geometry II: The Principle of Extremal Action - Comonadically

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The previous article motivated the importance of considering "pre-quantum field theory" in between classical and quantum field…

### Higher Prequantum Geometry I: The Need for Prequantum Geometry

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Before proceeding with discussion of the super p-brane sigma models, whose emergence from the superpoint I discussed in the previous article,…

### Can We See an Atom?

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If you look on the internet for pictures of atoms, you will see images like this:Or like this:Or like this:In this article I will discuss…