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Everett-Wheeler telephone

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.

  1. borrowed from téléphone — “kind of megaphone; system of communication using musical notes”
  2. derived from *bʰeh₂-✻ — “to say; to speak”
  3. derived from φωνή — “sound; voice”
  4. derived from *kʷelh₁-✻ — “to turn end-over-end; to revolve around; hence, to dwell, sojourn”
  5. derived from τῆλε — “afar, far away, far off”
  6. compounded as everett-wheeler telephone — “Everett + Wheeler + telephone”

Definitions

  1. A method of transmission of information between different quantum universes in branches…

    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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for Everett-Wheeler telephone. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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