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Are your memories fake? New research tackles the Boltzmann brain puzzle

Cosmology has a way of turning everyday certainty inside out, and few ideas do it more brutally than the suggestion that your ...

Are your memories illusions? New study disentangles the Boltzmann brain paradox

In a recent paper, SFI Professor David Wolpert, SFI Fractal Faculty member Carlo Rovelli, and physicist Jordan Scharnhorst examine a longstanding, paradoxical thought experiment in statistical physics ...

Gravity Could Be the Mother of Time, Scientists Say. That Could Upend Our Perception of the Universe.

We experience the flow of time because it’s a natural outcome of the basic laws of physics. But we may need to build a whole ...
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Entropy isn’t what it used to be

Entropy. Randomness. Disorder. Think of it as the universe’s tendency to move from ordered to disordered forms. It is a scientific concept of something that increases over time and something that is ...