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The Universal Wavfunction is a term introduced by Hugh Everett in his PhD Thesis, entitled The Theory of the Universal Wavefunction and forms a core concept in the relative state interpretation or many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. The universal wavefunction is the quantum state of the totality of existence.

References

  • Bryce DeWitt, R. Neill Graham, eds, The Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics, Princeton Series in Physics, Princeton University Press (1973), ISBN 069108131X Contains Everett's thesis: The Theory of the Universal Wavefunction.
  • Hugh Everett, Relative State Formulation of Quantum Mechanics, Reviews of Modern Physics vol 29, (1957) pp 454-462.
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