According to the “Boltzmann brain” hypothesis, we popped into existence as a thermal fluctuation in an otherwise chaotic universe, with our brains replete with spurious memories of a fictitious, orderly past. The hypothesis extends less ambitious argumentation by Ludwig Boltzmann in the late 19th century, but it lacks the physical foundation of Boltzmann’s original arguments. We are assured of neither the recurrence nor the reversibility of the time developments of the applicable physics. The Boltzmann brain scenario is much more likely to produce a physically spurious “batty brain” whose memories fail to conform to the scientifically well-behaved regularities of our brains
The standard ΛCDM model provides an excellent fit to current cosmological observations but suffers f...
I discuss the Boltzmann-Penrose question of why the initial conditions for cosmology have low entrop...
In two respects Ludwig Boltzmann was a pioneer of quantum mechanics. First because in his statistica...
Some modern cosmological models predict the appearance of Boltzmann Brains: observers who randomly f...
Some physical theories predict that almost all brains in the universe are Boltzmann brains, i.e. sho...
Abstract. Boltzmann brains (BBs) are minds which randomly appear as a result of thermodynamic or qua...
Many modern cosmological scenarios feature large volumes of spacetime in a de Sitter vacuum phase. ...
It has become something of a dogma in the philosophy of science that modern cosmology has completed ...
Understanding the observed arrow of time is equivalent, under general assumptions, to explaining why...
surprising about his equations that describe the flow of heat in a gas. Usually, the colliding gas p...
Linde in hep-th/0611043 shows that some (though not all) versions of the global (volume-weighted) de...
AbstractUnderstanding the observed arrow of time is equivalent, under general assumptions, to explai...
If the universe expands exponentially without end, ``ordinary observers'' like ourselves may be vast...
Plausible assumptions from Cosmology and Statistical Mechanics entail that it is overwhelmingly like...
The standard ΛCDM model provides an excellent fit to current cosmological observations but suffers f...
I discuss the Boltzmann-Penrose question of why the initial conditions for cosmology have low entrop...
In two respects Ludwig Boltzmann was a pioneer of quantum mechanics. First because in his statistica...
Some modern cosmological models predict the appearance of Boltzmann Brains: observers who randomly f...
Some physical theories predict that almost all brains in the universe are Boltzmann brains, i.e. sho...
Abstract. Boltzmann brains (BBs) are minds which randomly appear as a result of thermodynamic or qua...
Many modern cosmological scenarios feature large volumes of spacetime in a de Sitter vacuum phase. ...
It has become something of a dogma in the philosophy of science that modern cosmology has completed ...
Understanding the observed arrow of time is equivalent, under general assumptions, to explaining why...
surprising about his equations that describe the flow of heat in a gas. Usually, the colliding gas p...
Linde in hep-th/0611043 shows that some (though not all) versions of the global (volume-weighted) de...
AbstractUnderstanding the observed arrow of time is equivalent, under general assumptions, to explai...
If the universe expands exponentially without end, ``ordinary observers'' like ourselves may be vast...
Plausible assumptions from Cosmology and Statistical Mechanics entail that it is overwhelmingly like...
The standard ΛCDM model provides an excellent fit to current cosmological observations but suffers f...
I discuss the Boltzmann-Penrose question of why the initial conditions for cosmology have low entrop...
In two respects Ludwig Boltzmann was a pioneer of quantum mechanics. First because in his statistica...