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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of decohere.
  • adjective That have undergone decoherence

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Examples

  • (We don't see all these parallel universes surrounding us, because we have "decohered" from them.

    TDG - Science, Magick, Myth and History 2008

  • True, middle-sized objects, say, on the Earth's surface will be very effectively decohered by the air in the atmosphere, and this is an excellent example of decoherence at work.

    ...anything but love... 2009

  • To make my point in a different way: The fact that the system you are observing has already decohered before you make your observation does not mean quantum mechanics does not apply to.

    Quantum Hyperion Sean 2008

  • Now suppose that the system has already decohered before you make the measurement due to interactions with the environment.

    Quantum Hyperion Sean 2008

  • If, for example, the “me” in the current world is going to die in ten seconds, but the “me” in a different world from which I have already decohered will not, it is of no help whatsoever as far as my future is concerned.

    Quantum Diavlog Sean 2008

  • The fact that the system you are observing has already decohered before you make your observation does not mean quantum mechanics does not apply [to it].

    Quantum Hyperion Sean 2008

  • Accordingly, the (nonclassically) dismembered, decohered language or representation (i.e., the configuration of the corresponding phenomenal effects) does not map or otherwise represent them any more than

    Thinking Singularity with Immanuel Kant and Paul de Man: Aesthetics, Epistemology, History and Politics 2005

  • Whatever the nature of this decohered universe, whether or not there are just ten dimensions or if Omega + Lambda = 1 fits the prediction of the inflation theory, I ask whatever gods may be to look after my beloved Mollie.

    unknown title 2009

  • And it is very hard to experimentally determine whether a piece of dark matter has already decohered because it interacts with us too weakly.

    The Reference Frame 2008

  • Now, as long as you don’t know the experimetal result, your mental state has NOT decohered with the rest of the universe, even though your brain will have decohered.

    Quantum Hyperion Sean 2008

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