English Explanatory Dictionary

Everett branch

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A particular sequence of wavefunction collapses, which, according to the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, corresponds to a particular universe.

Word forms

Everett branch Everett branches

Etymology

Named after American physicist Hugh Everett III, who proposed the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics in 1957.

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