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Hugh Everett III

American physicist

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many-worlds hypothesis

  • tunneling
    In quantum mechanics: Measurement in quantum mechanics

    …so-called many-worlds interpretation, proposed by Hugh Everett III in 1957, which suggests that, when a measurement is made for a system in which the wave function is a mixture of states, the universe branches into a number of noninteracting universes. Each of the possible outcomes of the measurement occurs, but…

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  • Isaac Newton
    In philosophy of physics: The theory of Ghirardi, Rimini, and Weber

    …proposal by the American physicist Hugh Everett (1930–82) in 1957. According to the so-called “many worlds” hypothesis, the measurement of a particle that is in a superposition of being in region A and being in region B results in the instantaneous “branching” of the universe into two distinct, noninteracting universes,…

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