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Everett-Wheeler telephone en · NOUN

Etymology

From Everett + Wheeler + telephone. Based on the physics of Hugh Everett III and John Archibald Wheeler. Coined by American physicist Joseph Polchinski in 1990.

Meanings

  1. A method of transmission of information between different quantum universes in branches of the quantum multiverse that exist after the creation of the telephone, in an MWI of quantum physics.

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Everett-Wheeler telephones Number=Plur lexicographic

Relateds

Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen telephone · EPR telephone

wikipedia: en:Hugh Everett III · wikipedia: en:John Archibald Wheeler