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    Graduate How valid is the indivisible interpretation of quantum mechanics?

    What concern do you have with entanglement and this correspondence?
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    Graduate How valid is the indivisible interpretation of quantum mechanics?

    This discussion felt a lot more substantive than the discussion with Maudlin, largely because a higher level of familiarity with the relevant issues was assumed. Albert seems bothered by the fact that, in the framework of stochastic processes, the dynamical laws that govern subsystems are...
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    Undergrad Uncertainty and particle in a box

    The momentum uncertainty is just ##\sqrt{\langle p^2\rangle - \langle p \rangle^2}##.
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    Undergrad Uncertainty and particle in a box

    The wavefunction is zero outside the box, so you don't strictly have two exact but opposite momenta. Also, these two momenta are further from the mean the smaller the box is, increasing uncertainty.
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    Undergrad Entanglement might be the result of an underlying law?

    Entanglement is the quantum mechanical generalization of correlation, so within the framework of a quantum theory we can say interaction or selection gives rise to entanglement analogous to the way we can say interaction or selection gives rise to correlation in a classical framework. That's...
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    A question about quantum entanglement

    As an aside: There are analogous interpretational debates around special and general relativity. See e.g. substantivalist vs relationalist spacetime, or kinematical vs dynamical/neo-Lorentzian accounts. I suspect they are not as energetic as QM debates because relativity doesn't assault our...
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    A question about quantum entanglement

    QBism, Copenhagen (Asher Peres's variety), Consistent Histories, the Oxford branch (no pun intended) of Everettianism, Relational interpretation (Rovelli), Ensemble is at least agnostic. None of these involve superluminal influence of one system on another.
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    A question about quantum entanglement

    There are well established interpretations with no spooky action at a distance.
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    Graduate How valid is the indivisible interpretation of quantum mechanics?

    Barandes's correspondence is quite general. There's no reason to think it wouldn't extend to QFTs. Though it would be a worthy exercise, because as far as I know all existing presentations of the correspondence only consider a finite-dimensional Hilbert space.
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    Undergrad About wavefunction collapse and explaining single outcomes in different interpretations

    You might be thinking of a decoherence timescale/rate (see eq 5.38 in https://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/0105127 )
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    Graduate Universal quantum physics

    From the paper: ##\psi## and ##\phi## are rendered as such throughout. Is this a formatting error?
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    Graduate The Quantum Mechanics of Experiments

    A paper some people might find interesting: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.25335 Froehlich's work has come up a few times here (E.g. https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/jurg-frohlich-on-the-deeper-meaning-of-quantum-mechanics.972179/ ). It's a stochastic, histories based approach, but centers...
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    Graduate How valid is the indivisible interpretation of quantum mechanics?

    There's the ETH interpretation of QM. ETH stands for events, trees, and histories, but I suspect it is a nod to ETH Zurich.
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    Graduate Consistent histories -- particle positions prior to measurement

    I've touched on SSR occasionally here, as it's useful for understanding MWI and locality. But the issues SSR addresses are not issues in CH, as CH associates properties/true propositions with projectors on Hilbert space, not quantum states.