Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hartle-hawking state

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.64 in modern English

Syllables: hartle-hawk-ing s-tate
IPA

32

Scrabble Score

18

Letters

4

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A hypothetical state of the universe prior to the Planck epoch, in which time did not exist, only space.

Etymology

Named after James Hartle and Stephen Hawking.

Inflected Forms

Hartle-Hawking states (plural)

Questions

What does hartle-hawking state mean?: A hypothetical state of the universe prior to the Planck epoch, in which time did not exist, only space.
Where does hartle-hawking state come from?: Named after James Hartle and Stephen Hawking.

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