{"id":170208,"date":"2023-08-22T15:26:19","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T20:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/post-eternity-part-2-boltzmann-brains"},"modified":"2023-08-22T15:26:19","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T20:26:19","slug":"post-eternity-part-2-boltzmann-brains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/post-eternity-part-2-boltzmann-brains","title":{"rendered":"Post Eternity Part 2: Boltzmann Brains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=wc8qRKm9MLs&feature=share7\">https:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=wc8qRKm9MLs&amp;feature=share7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Boltzmann brain is another bizarre consequence of laws of physics. It\u2019s a configuration of matter, similar to our brains; a statistical fluctuation risen out of thermal equilibrium, a conscious observer created by a sudden decrease in entropy, having false memories of a grand structure exactly like our universe.<\/p>\n<p>Given enough time, every single possibility allowed by the physical laws in our most likely closed universe must eventually occur, including one with a fluctuated brain, sitting in the middle of nowhere, having the exact same thoughts that you are having right now.<\/p>\n<p>Boltzmann brains are speculative and inevitable at the same time. There is a serious chance that you might be indeed one of those brains, experiencing your false memories within a fake universe which is nothing but a delusion.<\/p>\n<p>Sources:<br \/> (Matthew Davenport, Ken D. Olum) Are there Boltzmann brains in the vacuum.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1008\">https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1008<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Sean M. Carroll) Why Boltzmann Brains Are Bad.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1702\">https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1702<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Musics:<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/post-eternity-part-2-boltzmann-brains\">Continue reading \u201cPost Eternity Part 2: Boltzmann Brains\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=wc8qRKm9MLs&amp;feature=share7 Boltzmann brain is another bizarre consequence of laws of physics. It\u2019s a configuration of matter, similar to our brains; a statistical fluctuation risen out of thermal equilibrium, a conscious observer created by a sudden decrease in entropy, having false memories of a grand structure exactly like our universe. Given enough time, every single possibility [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,47,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-arts","category-neuroscience","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}