Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Issues in the Philosophy of Cosmology
- Part II Structures in the Universe and the Structure of Modern Cosmology
- Part III Foundations of Cosmology: Gravity and the Quantum
- 9 The Observer Strikes Back
- 10 Testing Inflation
- 11 Why Boltzmann Brains do not Fluctuate into Existence from the de Sitter Vacuum
- 12 Holographic Inflation Revised
- 13 Progress and Gravity: Overcoming Divisions Between General Relativity and Particle Physics and Between Physics and HPS
- Part IV Quantum Foundations and Quantum Gravity
- Part V Methodological and Philosophical Issues
- Index
- References
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
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Issues in the Philosophy of Cosmology
- Part II Structures in the Universe and the Structure of Modern Cosmology
- Part III Foundations of Cosmology: Gravity and the Quantum
- 9 The Observer Strikes Back
- 10 Testing Inflation
- 11 Why Boltzmann Brains do not Fluctuate into Existence from the de Sitter Vacuum
- 12 Holographic Inflation Revised
- 13 Progress and Gravity: Overcoming Divisions Between General Relativity and Particle Physics and Between Physics and HPS
- Part IV Quantum Foundations and Quantum Gravity
- Part V Methodological and Philosophical Issues
- Index
- References
- Type
- Chapter
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- The Philosophy of Cosmology , pp. 228 - 240Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2017
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