No information or horizon paradoxes for Th. Smiths
Popular Physics
2015-10-06 v1 Statistical Mechanics
High Energy Physics - Theory
History and Philosophy of Physics
Abstract
'Th'e 'S'tatistical 'm'echanician 'i'n 'th'e 's'treet (our Th. Smiths) must be surprised upon hearing popular versions of some of today's most discussed paradoxes in astronomy and cosmology. In fact, rather standard reminders of the meaning of thermal probabilities in statistical mechanics appear to answer the horizon problem (one of the major motivations for inflation theory) and the information paradox (related to black hole physics), at least as they are usually presented. Still the paradoxes point to interesting gaps in our statistical understanding of (quantum) gravitational effects.
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@article{arxiv.1505.01456,
title = {No information or horizon paradoxes for Th. Smiths},
author = {Christian Maes},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.01456},
year = {2015}
}