Freak observers and the measure of the multiverse

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2006-11-24

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0611271v2

JHEP 0701:092,2007

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

6 pages, no figures; references added

Scientific paper

10.1088/1126-6708/2007/01/092

I suggest that the factor $p_j$ in the pocket-based measure of the multiverse, $P_j=p_j f_j$, should be interpreted as accounting for equilibrium de Sitter vacuum fluctuations, while the selection factor $f_j$ accounts for the number of observers that were formed due to non-equilibrium processes resulting from such fluctuations. I show that this formulation does not suffer from the problem of freak observers (also known as Boltzmann brains).

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