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  • adjective physics Exhibiting decoherence.

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  • Finally, some of the views espoused in the decoherent histories literature could be considered as cognate to Van Fraassen's views, identifying possibilities, however, at the level of possible courses of world history.

    ...anything but love... 2009

  • A partially overlapping field is that of decoherent histories, which proceeds from an abstract definition of loss of interference, but which we shall not be considering in any detail.

    ...anything but love... 2009

  • This interpretation states that upon the reduction of a wave function by some decoherent process, such as a measurement or thermal noise, the universe splits off into multiple copies for each of the possible outcomes.

    If We Live in a Multiverse, How Many Are There? | Universe Today 2009

  • For completeness, we mention the overlapping but distinct concept of decoherent (or consistent) histories.

    ...anything but love... 2009

  • So each of these decoherent kicks are amplified and they sum together.

    Quantum Hyperion Sean 2008

  • Each one of these decoherent events amounts to a little kick on the moon, which is a sort of quantum zeno process of reducing the quantum state of the moon.

    Quantum Hyperion Sean 2008

  • In this process obviously classical gravity or general relativity emerged as well as large decoherent structures such as stars, planets and the like.

    Do Atheists Exist? Sean 2008

  • Larger decoherent structures are more distinquishable.

    Do Atheists Exist? Sean 2008

  • The radiation is completely decoherent, thermal and indistiguishable from any other black body source observed at a great distance.

    The Black Hole War Sean 2008

  • However, decoherent representations or allegories appear to be better suited to relate to the world and life, and whatever bodies one finds there, or to read the kind of texts in question here.

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

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