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11 - Why Boltzmann Brains do not Fluctuate into Existence from the de Sitter Vacuum

from Part III - Foundations of Cosmology: Gravity and the Quantum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 April 2017

Kimberly K. Boddy
Affiliation:
University of Hawaii, USA
Sean M. Carroll
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Caltech, USA
Jason Pollack
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Caltech, USA
Khalil Chamcham
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
Joseph Silk
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
John D. Barrow
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Simon Saunders
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
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