What if Your Memories Never Happened? Physicists Take a New Look at the Boltzmann Brain Paradox

New research questions whether memory reliably reflects reality. What if your entire past never actually happened? That unsettling idea is at the center of a new study by SFI Professor David Wolpert, SFI Fractal Faculty member Carlo Rovelli, and physicist Jordan Scharnhorst. They revisit the “Boltzmann brain” hypothesis, a thought experiment that has challenged physicists [...]