Sentence examples for collapse from high-quality English sources.

• The larger and more rapid the collapse, the larger the tsunami.

• And then it lays out just how likely these fundamental are to collapse.

• The reason for adopting the MWI is that it avoids the collapse of the quantum wave.

• Something like the sun would collapse into a “white dwarf” about the size of the Earth.

• See Allori et al. 2008; also the entry on collapse theories, and references therein.

• The collapse of Redcar has been painted as a watershed moment for Britain’s steel industry.

• He said the longer action to reverse emissions was delayed, the more the risk of collapse would grow.

• That would shift the burden away from the state, but do little to help prevent another collapse of Thomas Cook’s size

Use collapse in a sentence.

• He took the von Neumann-Dirac collapse theory to be inconsistent and the Copenhagen interpretation to be essentially incomplete.

• The American economist Nouriel Roubini remarked on Friday that the decline in China's GDP was a " depression rate of economic collapse."

• So it put us in a bind, because, on the one hand, we couldn’t allow these institutions to collapse, because the whole economy would totally collapse with it.

• A further aspect of the relation between decoherence and spontaneous collapse theories relates to the experimental testability of spontaneous collapse theories.

• President Hoover blamed a series of shocks: the collapse of speculation on Wall Street, the collapse of international trade, the collapse of the banking system.

• Instead, if decoherence takes place faster than collapse, then the collapse mechanism can find ‘ready-made’ structures onto which to truly collapse the wave function.

• Everett’s no-collapse formulation of quantum mechanics was a direct reaction to the measurement problem that arises in the standard von Neumann-Dirac collapse formulation of the theory.

• "Our structural engineers have determined that the debris pile is not in danger of further collapse at this time, however we are currently monitoring the stability of the south wall of the building that did not collapse as part of the full demolition," the spokesperson said.

collapse sentence examples

• In this downturn, there is the looming collapse of many small businesses; potential losses in the commercial real estate sectors; a crisis in the funding of state and local governments that will most likely take years to play out; and a collapse of energy prices that could slow capital investment.

• President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said one person was killed in a building collapse in Huatulco, Oaxaca, while state governor Alejandro Murat said a second person was killed in an apparent house collapse in the mountain village of San Juan Ozolotepec and a third died in circumstances he did not explain.

• Given the need for an observer-independent interpretation of quantum mechanics for cosmology, Okon and Sudarsky (2014c) defended an objective collapse theory for the application to cosmology and quantum gravity, and on this basis, they proposed an adaptation of objective collapse models to a general relativistic context (2018a).

• Even worse, what might be interpreted as evidence for collapse could be reinterpreted as ‘mere’ suppression of interference within an Everett or pilot-wave approach, and only those cases in which the collapse theory predicts collapse but the system is shielded from decoherence (or perhaps in which the two pull in different directions) could be used to test collapse theories experimentally.