Boltzmann Brain

Boltzmann brain:

in fact anyone of us could be a Boltzmann brain, it’s actually more likely than the formation of the universe we know take for granted as our home, and if that’s the case we might all be figments of someone else’s imagination. It’s something to consider. This is topic that fascinates me but is also well beyond my capability to truly understand and my writing will never do the science justice, and honestly I won’t even really try to do so — I’m not a science writer after all, thinking of myself as more of a poet, lyrical prose with a spiritual bent being my main consideration. And indeed, if the Boltzmann brain scenario is true, than I am my own best and only audience.

what it is — is a thought experiment.

again, I won’t be able to do the science justice, but the line of thought suggest that statistically, it is more likely for single brain to spontaneously form in a void, along with its memories of a full and meaningful life, than it is for the universe to have appeared exactly as it seems to have done. That’s the Boltzmann brain, named after Austrian physicist Ludwig Boltzmann, and it isn’t a theory that cosmologist suggest is likely, even thought the statistics show it certainly could be so, but it’s used as a thought experiment to test the line of reasoning within he given laws of thermodynamics. It’s here that the science loses me, being to…