many-worlds interpretation
Britishnoun
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While it’s poetically evocative, like the beating wing of the butterfly that causes a typhoon, and mathematically pretty, the many-worlds interpretation is in any practical sense ridiculous.
From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2024
Labyrinths and strange books are both present here, as is a theory of existence that anticipates the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.
From The Guardian • Feb. 2, 2019
But Everett didn’t live to see the many-worlds interpretation achieve its current status as the most prominent rival to the Copenhagen interpretation.
From Scientific American • Mar. 21, 2018
In quantum mechanics, the many-worlds interpretation states that every event causes the universe to split off into different versions that encompass all possibilities.
From Slate • Jul. 28, 2017
One wavefunction-as-reality model is already famous and beloved by science-fiction writers: the many-worlds interpretation developed in the 1950s by Hugh Everett, who was then a graduate student at Princeton University in New Jersey.
From Nature • May 19, 2015
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