bootstrap model

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Etymology

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

Noun

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bootstrap model (plural bootstrap models)

  1. (physics) 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.