I presented a version of this argument to Sean Carroll (prominent physicist/blogger) in his December 2022 AMA (for context, the past hypothesis is just the quantitative way to state the assumption that the universe began low entropy, thus throwing out all universes that emerged randomly from fluctuations and predict Boltzman brains):
Q: In the October AMA, you said there was “No experiment you can do” to prove the past hypothesis. However, it seems any universe where the laws of thermodynamics are true and the past hypothesis is false should makes some very... (read more)
I presented a version of this argument to Sean Carroll (prominent physicist/blogger) in his December 2022 AMA (for context, the past hypothesis is just the quantitative way to state the assumption that the universe began low entropy, thus throwing out all universes that emerged randomly from fluctuations and predict Boltzman brains):
Q: In the October AMA, you said there was “No experiment you can do” to prove the past hypothesis. However, it seems any universe where the laws of thermodynamics are true and the past hypothesis is false should makes some very... (read more)