Freak observers and the measure of the multiverse
High Energy Physics - Theory
2010-10-27 v2
Abstract
I suggest that the factor in the pocket-based measure of the multiverse, , should be interpreted as accounting for equilibrium de Sitter vacuum fluctuations, while the selection factor accounts for the number of observers that were formed due to non-equilibrium processes resulting from such fluctuations. I show that this formulation does not suffer from the problem of freak observers (also known as Boltzmann brains).
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0611271,
title = {Freak observers and the measure of the multiverse},
author = {Alexander Vilenkin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0611271},
year = {2010}
}
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6 pages, no figures; references added