What you offer as a way the universe got started, through Boltzmann brain, is one reason some people see BBs as pernicious. If the whole of existence is some mental projection within a BB then all of physics implodes. The instability of de Sitter spacetime makes BBs improbable however,
LC On Friday, June 18, 2021 at 5:38:26 PM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote: > I've offered up the notion that the universe got started by a perhaps a > boltzmann brain (singular) and is run by the BB. Bruno thinks this proposal > is sub-ridiculous, ask him! Me? I still see it as plausible and charming. I > have no proposal for testing this possibility. Leave that for the > cosmologists. > ------------------------------ > On Friday, June 18, 2021 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > On 6/18/2021 2:38 AM, John Clark wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 7:23 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > > *>Socialists who do mass murder are no better than religious people who do > mass murder. Can we agree on this premise? * > > > Yes. And can we agree on the premise that Black Lives Matter protesters > who broke into a Burger King *ARE BETTER* than Trump's thugs who broke > into the Capitol Building and even the Senate Chamber itself in order to > prevent the democratic election of the next President of the United States > as demanded by the US Constitution? Saying otherwise would be like saying a > firefly is the same as a supernova because they both produce light. > > > *We have our own religions and sometimes without a god* > > > You're trying to leech all meaning out of a word. People like to say > nonsense like the above because they like the way the English word " > religion" sounds and don't care what it means; it's the same reason they > redefined the word "God" in such a vague way that everybody would have to > say they believe in God. I believe I can't lift my car off the ground > because gravity is too strong, so I believe in a higher power, so I must > believe in "God". I believe that grey amorphous blobs exist, so I must > believe in "God". > > “People are more unwilling to give up the word ‘God’ than to give up the > idea for which the word has hitherto stood” > --- Bertrand Russell > > Brent > > -- > 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/d8b57fa2-6d23-ea9d-f2d4-66293b55ac44%40verizon.net > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/d8b57fa2-6d23-ea9d-f2d4-66293b55ac44%40verizon.net?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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/226adaa3-5a68-45aa-bb0a-2886d936b689n%40googlegroups.com.
