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Science in a Very Large Universe · Around

2009

Science in a Very Large Universe

Srednicki, Mark, Hartle, James

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Understand

As observers of the universe we are quantum physical systems within it.

If the universe is very large in space and/or time, the probability becomes significant that the data on which we base predictions is replicated at other locations in spacetime.
The physical conditions at these locations that are not specified by the data may differ.
Predictions of our future observations therefore require an assumed probability distribution (the xerographic distribution) for our location among the possible ones.

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S. Coleman and F. DeLuccia, Gravitational effects on and of false vacuum decay
1980
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J. B. Hartle and M. Srednicki, Are we typical?
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D. N. Page, Is our universe decaying at an astronomical rate?
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