On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 10:16:15PM -0800, meekerdb wrote: > On 2/3/2014 10:00 PM, Russell Standish wrote: > >On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 12:44:57PM -0800, meekerdb wrote: > >>Layzer of course didn't know about the holographic principle, which > >>implies that the maximum possible entropy increases in proportion to > >>the surface area of the Hubble sphere rather than the volume. Vic > >>Stenger has noted that if you assume the degrees of freedom for the > >>vacuum are proportional to this area (in Planck units) you get the > >>right order of magnitude for the energy density of the cosmological > >>constant. > >> > >Wow! That's quite something. Did Vic ever write this up somewhere? > > > >Cheers > > > > It's in section 12.2 of his 2011 book "The Fallacy of Fine Tuning". > > Brent >
Not in a peer reviewed article, then. Mind you I don't blame him, given the current state of peer review. I'm unfortunately not sufficiently interested to buy the book, nor is it available in my uni's library :(. I'll have to leave this on my toread list. Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
