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Also the gravitational attraction between two sub-atomic particles is absurdly negligible. Although you can demonstrate the effect of say Earth's gravity on quantum mechanics through some neat little interference experiments, I believe Shankar (or is it Sakurai) discusses this.

Do they have quantum numbers? Of course, why wouldn't they? (The set of) Quantum numbers are the minimum set of conserved quantities (i.e. quantities that commute with the hamiltonian) you need to describe a system. Though what I think you're probably asking is do free particles have...

I'm sure this debate has been played out to excruciating detail on this forum, but even non-local quantum theories like deBroglie-Bohm have no "solution" to the measurement problem and thus are still fundamentally non-deterministic, "non-local hidden variables" or otherwise. It all comes back...

It's an interesting question, if the universe was made of but one hydrogen atom, could it have an infinite number of energy levels (at absolute zero)? Well, regardless, in a hydrogen-like atom the energy of a given level goes like E_n=\frac{-13.6 \mathrm{eV}}{n^2}. The key thing being the...

This seems a little muddled to me. Perhaps it would help to point out that the "Heisenberg uncertainty principle" is not, in fact, anything special to quantum mechanics, in fact it's a general property of ALL waves. The key conceit of quantum mechanics is that the behaviour of "particles"...

That isn't a quantum mechanics thing, it's a complex numbers thing. The magnitude of a complex number is given by z^* z not z^2. Think about it, if instead of a complex number I thought of z as a 2-dimensional vector, an x and y coordinate (the y is the complex part). Then the, euclidian...

The goal of science is to change our data to fit our hypothesis... wait, that doesn't sound quite right... Is your issue simply that with experiments come experimental error and only after errors analysis and lines of best fit do we recover the desired agreement with theory? There's nothing...

What you are referring to is called the Casimir Effect. As to whether one can confuse it with gravity keep in mind that our theory(ies) of gravity don't simply tell us qualitatively that "two massive things are attracted" but tell us by how much and how this force of attraction changes with the...