Re: Everything you wanted to know about physics...

2013-11-18 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 18 Nov 2013, at 00:53, LizR wrote: If the universe exists for long enough It has to be virtually infinite, have special homogeneity conditions, and even in that case, I don't see how a Boltzman brain can exist a sufficiently long time to get the deep and linear comp state capable of

Re: Everything you wanted to know about physics...

2013-11-17 Thread spudboy100
I think K. Susskind, is, or was a supporter of Boltzmann Brains, which is a wild, subject, if true. -Original Message- From: LizR lizj...@gmail.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Sat, Nov 16, 2013 6:41 pm Subject: Everything you wanted to know about physics

Re: Everything you wanted to know about physics...

2013-11-17 Thread LizR
If the universe exists for long enough they appear to be inevitable. No doubt that leads to some sort of Bayesian argument about the universe not being able to last too long, or we'd all be BBs (too long would be an awfully long time, to misquote Peter Pan). However, can we be sure we aren't?

Everything you wanted to know about physics...

2013-11-16 Thread LizR
...but were afraid to ask. http://www.openculture.com/2013/05/leonard_susskind_teaches_you_the_theoretical_minimum.html -- 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