DuncanS

Today I came across an article in the Telegraph that states that an average man has 9 sexual partners in his lifetime, whilst a woman has only 4. Let's assume for a moment that in fact all these men and women are heterosexuals. In that case, each partnership contains one...

I have a question on Boltzmann brains which I'd like to hear your opinions on - mostly because I don't know the answer to this.... First of all - a Boltzmann brain is the idea that - in a sufficiently large and long-lived universe, a brain just like mine or...