Meaning

1 senses
  1. Any of a class of theories that use very general consistency criteria to determine the form of a quantum theory from some assumptions on the spectrum of particles.

Origin

See pull oneself up by one's bootstraps: particles were surmised to be held together by fo

See pull oneself up by one's bootstraps: particles were surmised to be held together by forces consisting of exchanges of the particles themselves.

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Forms

plural: bootstrap models
Singularbootstrap model
Pluralbootstrap models

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