کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
8194973 1528902 2008 4 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Is our universe decaying at an astronomical rate?
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه فیزیک و نجوم فیزیک هسته ای و انرژی بالا
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Is our universe decaying at an astronomical rate?
چکیده انگلیسی
Unless our universe is decaying at an astronomical rate (i.e., on the present cosmological timescale of Gigayears, rather than on the quantum recurrence timescale of googolplexes), it would apparently produce an infinite number of observers per comoving volume by thermal or vacuum fluctuations (Boltzmann brains). If the number of ordinary observers per comoving volume is finite, this scenario seems to imply zero likelihood for us to be ordinary observers and minuscule likelihoods for our actual observations. Hence, our observations suggest that this scenario is incorrect and that perhaps our universe is decaying at an astronomical rate.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Physics Letters B - Volume 669, Issues 3–4, 17 November 2008, Pages 197-200
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