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| Boltzmann Brain - acrylic, 120 x 100 cm, 2009 |
inspiration for this image is called the paradox of the cosmological hypothesis, or the Boltzmann brain problem. Ludwig Boltzmann was a brilliant physicist austryjackim, was too brilliant for its time as well as for their colleagues peers.
Boltzmann Brain (otherwise strange observer) is a hypothetical self-conscious entity that appears in space by random fluctuations of the universe. This type of consciousness, theoretically, can occur in less than a second and disappear making havoc in a different structure.
This concept was born from the need to explain why the cosmos, there are organisms with such different stages of development, since, according to the second principle of thermodynamics, when the thermodynamic system moves from one equilibrium to another, without the involvement of external factors (ie spontaneously), its entropy always increases. (Entropy - Thermodynamic state function, defining the direction of spontaneous processes in an isolated thermodynamic system).
So in other words, our universe should be the unit of highest entropy, close to the state of unity and chaotic. Why, then, the entropy of the universe that we observe is so low? Why is the universe that we perceive is not chaotic, and it is not zuniformowany?
Boltzmann suggested such an explanation: we, or casual observers, and that our world is perceived by us, with its low-entropy, we random fluctuation in the universe with high entropy.
"We see this very unlikely universe because the unlikely condition is necessary for us to exist here."
If the current level of the structure of our world, consisting of many self-conscious individuals, the result of random fluctuation, it is less likely than the level of the structure, which is able to create only one self-conscious entity. In this case, in every universe, every structure, we have seen, there should be an incredible number of single-drain Boltzmannowskich, floating in the chaotic space, and observing different structures. So, hypothetically, could be such a Boltzmannowskim brain. But if the structure you see is more than just the need to clarify my mind, it therefore is very unlikely that I'm the result of random fluctuation. That is translating into more digestible language, if you are a conscious being, almost certainly, you can assume you're not Boltzmannowskim Brain, but "ordinary observer".
Where is the paradox? The problem is that for several years, we know that the universe is not only expanding, but expanding faster and faster. Worse, there are many indications that the charge of a secret agent working exactly as Einstein's cosmological constant.
This means that as the universe will be approaching the state of equilibrium, creatures such as we will be increasingly difficult to not only survive, but result from evolution.
The most radical solution to the paradox (by Don Page's) is also the most pessimistic: it says that our universe simply cease to exist - from the dissolution of the state false vacuum - before brains boltzmannowskie will have a chance to dominate the intellectual landscape.
And here's two different variations of Spices on my production Parodoksu Boltzmann;
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| The Boltzmann Entities strike again |
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| We Are watching you! |
