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Katharine Everett Gilbert (1886–1952) was an American philosopher who specialized in aesthetics and the philosophy of art. She was a founding trustee of the American Society for Aesthetics as well as its first woman president. Gilbert was also one of the first women to be president of a division of the American Philosophical Association. [1]
John Archibald Wheeler. Hugh Everett III ( / ˈɛvərɪt /; November 11, 1930 – July 19, 1982) was an American physicist who, in his 1957 PhD thesis, proposed what is now known as the many-worlds interpretation (MWI) of quantum mechanics . In danger of losing his draft deferment, Everett took a research job with the Pentagon the year before ...
Occupation. Philosopher, writer. Parent (s) Joseph Hale Abbot. Francis Ellingwood Abbot (November 6, 1836 – October 23, 1903) [1] was an American philosopher [2] and theologian who sought to reconstruct theology in accordance with the scientific method. [3] His lifelong romance with his wife, Katharine Fearing Loring, forms the subject of If ...
1998. Occupation. Education theorist. Everett W. Reimer (1910–1998 [1]) was an education theorist who authored several books on educational policy and was a proponent of deschooling. He was a notable friend of Ivan Illich, whom he met at the Catholic University of Puerto Rico . Everett did a variety of things as a young man, including selling ...
Katherine Everett was born Kathleen Olive Herbert in 1872 in Cahernane House, County Kerry. Her father was Henry Herbert of the Muckross estate. Everett had a difficult and unhappy relationship with her mother, leading her to leave home as a teenager living with relatives or others as a companion. She attended the Slade Art School, where she ...
600–500 BC. Thales of Miletus (c. 624 – 546 BC). Of the Milesian school. Believed that all was made of water. Pherecydes of Syros (c. 620 – c. 550 BC). Cosmologist. Anaximander of Miletus (c. 610 – 546 BC). Of the Milesian school. Famous for the concept of Apeiron, or "the boundless".
The quantum-mechanical "Schrödinger's cat" paradox according to the many-worlds interpretation.In this interpretation, every quantum event is a branch point; the cat is both alive and dead, even before the box is opened, but the "alive" and "dead" cats are in different branches of the multiverse, both of which are equally real, but which do not interact with each other.
Quantum suicide and immortality. Quantum suicide is a thought experiment in quantum mechanics and the philosophy of physics. Purportedly, it can falsify any interpretation of quantum mechanics other than the Everett many-worlds interpretation by means of a variation of the Schrödinger's cat thought experiment, from the cat's point of view.