All of the best current cosmological models have a very disturbing aspect to them that no one really likes to talk about. Due to quantum fluctuations in space and time things could just pop into existence out of the vacuum. Things like fully formed conscious entities, which the theoreticians called Boltzmann Brains. Odd as it sounds, there’s nothing in the maths that prevents these Brains from popping into existence and, given enough space and time, completely filling the entire Universe. Well, if a Universe packed full of Brains frightens you, fear not: it turns out that recent discoveries have suggested that the mass of the Higgs Boson will end the Universe before the Brains take over. Whew, that’s a relief! ‘Course, if that’s what the Brains want us to think…
Those were fun times.
Weird Science!
|Maybe this is why he stopped writing.|
Wait, the front page has dolphins now?
lol
"that's what Mueller is doing to trump right now"
Those were the good old days when all we had to worry about was eldritch horrors from another dimension
Linky?
Well done!
I see Fakakta South commented. She wrote an occasional piece, too.
All of the best current cosmological models have a very disturbing aspect to them that no one really likes to talk about. Due to quantum fluctuations in space and time things could just pop into existence out of the vacuum. Things like fully formed conscious entities, which the theoreticians called Boltzmann Brains. Odd as it sounds, there’s nothing in the maths that prevents these Brains from popping into existence and, given enough space and time, completely filling the entire Universe. Well, if a Universe packed full of Brains frightens you, fear not: it turns out that recent discoveries have suggested that the mass of the Higgs Boson will end the Universe before the Brains take over. Whew, that’s a relief! ‘Course, if that’s what the Brains want us to think…
Now that's good science!
The only thing you have to fear is honor itself. Or something like that.
Seriously–well done and I do miss those posts!
Get out of my head!!!
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Whoa. I'm guessing it wasn't science at all that blinded that one guy.
Oh that's nice! This one has been a decent tool.
https://www.boss.info/us/products/cs-3/
D'oh!