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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Problem Isn't Boltsman Brains

When we look at the cosmic mikrave background, we're using light to observe conditions far away. It takes light time to reach us, and therefore billions of years have passed since the moment that this photon that we are observing to day last interacted with the microde background. And as time goes on, what that means is there is more and more time between the formation of the cosmic microde background and u so we're looking more and moreTime back at regions of the cosmic micad background that we're created slightly further away. The point is, if everything that we know just a random fluctuation, there's no reason at all for that pattern to continue to morrow. We

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