Etymograph

English

Everett-Wheeler telephone

From Everett + Wheeler + telephone.

A compound of Everett + Wheeler + telephone

Dutch Everaert

English Everett

Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos ‘wheel’

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Proto-Germanic *hweulu

Old English hwēol ‘wheel’

Middle English whel ‘wheel’

Middle English whelere ‘a person employed in building and maintaining…’

English Wheeler

The story

Based on the physics of Hugh Everett III and John Archibald Wheeler. Coined by American physicist Joseph Polchinski in 1990.

Today it means

noun 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.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Everett-Wheeler telephone