Urban myths in contemporary cosmology

Posted by Günther Greindl on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Urban-myths-in-contemporary-cosmology-tp526297p526301.html

Carl,

thanks for the link, nice discussion going on there.
Greg is right on track with the argument that DA etc fail because we are
not sampled beforehand - there is no fact of the matter of who we are
before we experience anything.

Although the discussion there is a bit too inimical to the Boltzmann
brain (BB) idea: it does show serious flaws with current cosmology,
maybe even deeper lying flaws in some other assumptions. Because of this
heuristic value, exploring BBs is important IMHO.

Cheers,
G?nther

Carl Tollander wrote:

> http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2008/06/urban_myths_in_contemporary_co.html
>
> Egan fans (and others!) may find this of interest.
>
> C.
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