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page curve

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.10 in modern English

Syllables
page curve
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The predicted path of the evolution of the von Neumann entropy of a black hole undergoing Hawking radiation through its lifetime, where the Hawking radiation radiates away the quantum information stored within the black hole, to avoid violating the Law of Conservation of Quantum Information.

Etymology

From being a curve on a graph derived by physicist Don Page.

Inflected Forms

Page curves (plural)

Questions

What does page curve mean?
The predicted path of the evolution of the von Neumann entropy of a black hole undergoing Hawking radiation through its lifetime, where the Hawking radiation radiates away the quantum information stored within the black hole, to avoid violating the Law of Conservation of Quantum Information.
Where does page curve come from?
From being a curve on a graph derived by physicist Don Page.

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