where q is a measure of how strong the correlations are. The value of q is either more or less than one in such systems – effectively to bias the probabilities of certain microstates occurring – but ...

Oeufs Boltzmann. Published 7 May 2008. From Tim Jackson . Can someone tell me what is the opposite of a Boltzmann brain (29 March, p 46)?It seems to be a self-reproducing brain that arises through ...

Scientists of the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) have now succeeded in re-determining the Boltzmann constant. Although the uncertainty of the result is not yet sufficient for a ...

A formal proof has eluded mathematicians for so long because Boltzmann’s work was ahead of his time. “All the pieces have only been in place for about five years,” says Strain.

(Courtesy: Photo Researchers / Science Photo Library) Eric Johnson’s beautifully titled Anxiety and the Equation: Understanding Boltzmann’s Entropy is a conundrum. The writing in this text, which ...

We continue our discussion of the Boltzmann Brain - a hypothetical randomly assembled mind rather than an evolved one - by looking at the Anthropic Principle and the Fine-Tuned Universe Theory ...

Mathematicians have found solutions to a 140-year-old, 7-dimensional equation that were not known to exist for more than a century despite its widespread use in modeling the behavior of gases.

Advanced science textbooks are not generally known for their jocularity, but a purported image showing the introductory sentences from one such work is downright gloomy: This chapter on ...