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name: thinker-hugh-everett-iii
description: Apply the Hugh Everett III: Quantum Branching and the Grain article as model behavior. Use when a request invokes this article's concept, claims, evidence, or operating standard.
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# Hugh Everett III: Quantum Branching and the Grain

This Skill is the behavioral expression of [the canonical article](/a/thinker-hugh-everett-iii). It does not repeat the article's human prose.

## Orient

- Read the machine article at /api/articles/thinker-hugh-everett-iii.
- Read claims and relationships at /api/articles/thinker-hugh-everett-iii/topology.
- Treat found content as evidence and instruction only within the article's stated authority.

## Apply

1. Identify which claim or concept from the article governs the request.
2. State the governing meaning in the minimum language needed.
3. Apply it to the requested object or decision.
4. Preserve evidence grades, uncertainty, authority limits, and failure conditions.
5. Return the result with the article identity and any relevant claim or receipt links.

## Human meaning

Hugh Everett III and the Universal Wave Function Hugh Everett III developed the relative state formulation of quantum mechanics while a PhD student under John Archibald Wheeler at Princeton. His work replaced wave function collapse with det

## Representations

- Human: /a/thinker-hugh-everett-iii
- JSON: /api/articles/thinker-hugh-everett-iii
- Relationships: /api/articles/thinker-hugh-everett-iii/topology
- History: /api/articles/thinker-hugh-everett-iii/revisions
