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English
Etymology
Everett + Wheeler + telephone. Based on the physics of Hugh Everett III and John Archibald Wheeler. Coined by American physicist Joseph Polchinski in 1990.
Noun
Everett-Wheeler telephone (plural Everett-Wheeler telephones)
- 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 a MWI of quantum physics.
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Further reading
- Joseph Polchinski, "Weinberg’s nonlinear quantum mechanics and the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox"; NSF-ITP-90-101, UTTG-21-90, Jul 1990; Physics Review Letters, v.66, n.4, pp.397-400, Jan 1991, ISSN: 0031-9007; DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.66.397; Bibcode: 1991PhRvL..66..397P
- John G. Cramer, "Quantum Telephones to Other Universes, to Times Past", 'The Alternate View', Analog, Oct 1991 (AV-48); ISSN: 0161-2328