Everett-Wheeler telephone

English

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.

Noun

Everett-Wheeler telephone (plural Everett-Wheeler telephones)

1. 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.

Related terms

• Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen telephone
• EPR telephone

 

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