hyperloop

Noun

1. A theoretical high-speed transportation system, proposed by Elon Musk, in which pressurized capsules ride on an air cushion driven by linear induction motors and air compressors through reduced-pressure tubes.
   • Musk began developing another transportation project in 2012, something he calls the Hyperloop. - 2012, Scott Griffiths, Eric Elfman, Beyond Genius, →ISBN, page 210:
   • Whatever – the result is the same: they usually jump in front of the nearest hyperloop shuttle. - 2014, Gideon Defoe, Elite Dangerous: Docking is Difficult, →ISBN:
   • There is a small handful of groups working in earnest on making Elon Musk's dream of a hyperloop a reality, but none are so high profile as Hyperloop Technologies. - 2015 September 16, Casey Newton, “Hyperloop...
2. A control structure in which a loop repeats until either a stopping condition is met or all possible values of the looping index have been checked.
   • If Hal finds a value of x such that fun(x), Hal sends a signal to Dave (perhaps a light-beam). Dave carries a receiving device with him, which stores a variable, xFound, initialised to a default value of 0; this...
3. A quantum mechanical paradox resulting from the observer being a product of the observations that it makes.
   • At this point, the hyperloop breaks in. A holographic virtual image is presented to an optical observer. Where is the observer of the image formed from Gij? Presumably, it is the physicist. But the physicist is himself...
   • Even more jaw-rattling is the problem of what is being called the "hyperloop." The Helmholtzian view of mind — that it is exhaustively explainable in terms of the electrochemical activity of brain — is a solid article...
   • His concern in this paper is with the relations of Bohm's implicate to a "hyperloop" (the "observer paradox "), which Comfort variously describes as "matter thinking itself' (1981: 363), as the process "by which the...