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Can brains spontaneously form in space?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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Is There a Supernova?

You can build these things out of anything. It's no law physics requiring you to have a super nova in order to make uranium, phosphorus or whatever it is. And so we use this as a probe till i think about the likelihood of various cosmological theories of the universe. One standard is like, does your theory predict that there are more boltman brains than actual real people out there, thinking and breathing? Yes, absolutely. You should try that defence, and then i'll come visit you in prison and bring you some bananas. But what if i bring a serious physicist with me to testify? I don't know any som s i can recommend one for you. All right

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