many-worlds interpretation

noun

1. an interpretation of quantum mechanics based on the idea that every possible event exists in its own world

Example Sentences

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

But if you subscribe to the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, there’s another universe somewhere in which everybody — whether teen, adult, male, female or nonbinary — sings just like Alanis Morissette.

From Los Angeles Times

This, then, is my attempt to play with the many-worlds interpretation by way of Terry Pratchett.

From Nature

Two decades later, the physicist Hugh Everett similarly postulated, in his “Many-Worlds Interpretation,” that “all possible future histories are real.”

From New York Times

A new book by physicist Sean Carroll examines “one of the most bizarre yet fully logical ideas in human history”: the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.

From Nature