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So, the microstates of a black hole are the myriad specific contortions of spacetime that from a distance still look like the black hole.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 28, 2024

The researchers keep adding shells and then, using standard mathematical tools, find that the number of independent microstates maxes out at a particular value.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 28, 2024

Among those with the largest footprints are wealthy oil-producing microstates with small populations, like Qatar or Trinidad and Tobago, where the per-capita footprint pushes 60 tons.

From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2022

With any system, the assumption that all microstates are equally probable must be valid, or the analysis will be erroneous.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

Because counting microstates and macrostates involves statistics, this is called statistical analysis.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015