• of quantum mechanics posit a central role for an observer of a quantum phenomenon. The quantum mechanical observer is tied to the issue of observer effect...
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  • In physics, the observer effect is the disturbance of an observed system by the act of observation. This is often the result of utilising instruments...
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    of all quantum physics, which includes quantum chemistry, quantum field theory, quantum technology, and quantum information science. Quantum mechanics...
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  • philosophers of physics concerning which interpretation best "represents" reality. Influential figures in the interpretation of quantum mechanics The definition...
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    of multiverse hypotheses in physics and philosophy. MWI views time as a many-branched tree, wherein every possible quantum outcome is realized. This is...
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  • depend on the reference frame of the observer, and Wheeler's idea that information theory would make sense of quantum mechanics. The physical content of...
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  • Observer effect (physics) Observer (quantum physics) Philosophy of physics Quantum cognition Quantum pseudo-telepathy Quantum Zeno effect Wigner's friend...
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  • case, the helium atom. The transition from the old quantum theory to full-fledged quantum physics began in 1925, when Werner Heisenberg presented a treatment...
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    of quantum entanglement is at the heart of the disparity between classical physics and quantum physics: entanglement is a primary feature of quantum mechanics...
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    endeavors. Physics intersects with many interdisciplinary areas of research, such as biophysics and quantum chemistry, and the boundaries of physics are not...
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    Schrödinger's cat (category Quantum measurement)
    physics How does the quantum description of reality, which includes elements such as the superposition of states and wavefunction collapse or quantum...
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    Branches of physics include classical mechanics; thermodynamics and statistical mechanics; electromagnetism and photonics; relativity; quantum mechanics...
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  • physics. Contemporary work focuses on issues at the foundations of the three pillars of modern physics: Quantum mechanics: Interpretations of quantum...
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  • APS Observer, a member magazine of the Association for Psychological Science (APS) Observer (general relativity) Observer (quantum physics) Observer (special...
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  • the observer. How can these two concepts of time be reconciled? Yang–Mills theory: Given an arbitrary compact gauge group, does a non-trivial quantum Yang–Mills...
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  • Quantum suicide is a thought experiment in quantum mechanics and the philosophy of physics. Purportedly, it can falsify any interpretation of quantum...
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  • quantum consciousness. He instead discusses how quantum mechanics may relate to dualistic consciousness. Chalmers is skeptical that any new physics can...
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    physics, quantum field theory (QFT) is a theoretical framework that combines field theory and the principle of relativity with ideas behind quantum mechanics...
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  • Quantum physics is a branch of modern physics in which energy and matter are described at their most fundamental level, that of energy quanta, elementary...
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    biographer Walter J. Moore said that Schrödinger's two interests of quantum physics and Hindu mysticism were "strangely dissociated". In his 1961 paper...
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  • of Quantum Theory, Routledge Chapman & Hall, 1993, ISBN 0-415-06588-7 Detlef Dürr, Sheldon Goldstein, Nino Zanghì: Quantum Physics Without Quantum Philosophy...
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    Observer effect (physics) Quantum Darwinism Quantum decoherence Wavefunction collapse Zeno's paradoxes Facchi, P; Pascazio, S (2008-10-29). "Quantum Zeno...
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    extended to other areas of physics, such as statistical mechanics, continuum mechanics, classical field theory, and quantum field theory. Moreover, they...
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    Lectures on Physics Vol II. Addison Wesley Longman. John Archibald Wheeler (1998). Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics. London: Norton...
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    Boltzmann brain (category Philosophy of thermal and statistical physics)
    than the current age of the universe. In modern physics, Boltzmann brains can be formed either by quantum fluctuation, or by a thermal fluctuation generally...
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  • observed is unwittingly influenced by the presence of the observer. Observer effect (physics), the impact of observing a physical system Probe effect,...
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    beginning of the 20th century, physics was transformed by the discoveries of quantum mechanics, relativity, and atomic theory. Physics today may be divided loosely...
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    In physics and the philosophy of physics, quantum Bayesianism is a collection of related approaches to the interpretation of quantum mechanics, the most...
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  • Quantum superposition is a fundamental principle of quantum mechanics that states that linear combinations of solutions to the Schrödinger equation are...
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  • In quantum physics, a quantum state is a mathematical entity that embodies the knowledge of a quantum system. Quantum mechanics specifies the construction...
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