The Big Rip is an interesting hypothesis and the concept is that when the false vacuum goes poof, there is the True Vacuum as a substrate. This may have been what Boltzmann had projected, as opposed to later theorists essays who came along after Boltzmann committed suicide. This is briefly, the earliest paper on this topic that I could quickly uncover: Martin Rees & Piet Hut 1983How stable is our vacuum? - NASA/ADS (harvard.edu)My guess is that if the Universe possesses an Observer, an observer that thinks in the conventional way we humans understand thinking, then that BB, is perhaps a one time occurence, is the Mind of the Universe, or some mind that came up with a universe or a multiverse, simply by observing and evolving, maybe? I always liked Vilenkin of Tufts creation inflation proposal. And maybe not. It's like how the universe ends? Cyclic retraction expansion like Steinhardt & Turock, or Frampton & Baum, or a permanent collapse, eternal expansion to evanescence, False Vacuum Snaps Apart??? I suspect growing complexity is evolving, and uncovered by new discoveries, but in the meantime, BB answers some basic question, for me.
-----Original Message----- From: Lawrence Crowell <[email protected]> To: Everything List <[email protected]> Sent: Sun, May 30, 2021 9:58 am Subject: Re: Was, Re: The theology of number, (Now) The Universe Learns (not released on April 1st) The Boltzmann brain is only really a problem if the vacuum or spacetime of the observable universe is "eternal." It probably is not, and in fact there are reasons to suspect the vacuum of the universe has phantom energy. This will force the universe into a big rip in 10 trillion years or so. This is based on data with Hubble constant discrepancy. SN1 data with H = 74km/sec-Mpc and CMB data with H = 68km/sec-Mpc, So the entire observable universe may be ripped asunder down to and beyond quarks and leptons long before a BB is statistically possible. LC On Monday, May 24, 2021 at 4:56:31 PM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote: My view is that Big BB has a unique viewpoint that crystalizes its view as the Prime Observer, and nudges things from arithmetic into reality. How this hocus pocus occurs (cause and effect) is more than a bit above my consciousness, the specific mechanics of this. With theorists like Sean Carroll, the Boltzmann Brain is a troubling thing, because there would be a plenitude of observers arising like virtual particles (photons) out of the true vacuum flowing. I figured there may in all of these Brahma-cycles (not an Indian motorbike), one grand observer. But, I could be wrong and I am not looking for research funds to prove this theology wrong. Meanwhile here is an ancient magazine article in Discover from years ago, celebrating the Bruno explanation for reality. https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/everything-in-the-universe-is-made-of-math-including-you this includes all Boltzmann Brain, but they have no special role at all, -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/f679dc48-07ee-48d1-b306-0b0caedff774n%40googlegroups.com. -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/7438749.1234596.1622423571020%40mail.yahoo.com.
