Speaker
Jim Cline
Description
It has recently been proposed to replace the anthropic principle with a more
objective criterion: the likelihood of creating observers is proportional to
the amount of entropy production within a causally connected region of the
universe. This "entropic principle" does a better job of predicting the
value of the cosmological constant than does its anthropic predecessor, and
it is falsifiable, through its power to predict other properties of the
universe to which the existence of observers is sensitive. For example,
dark matter should be unstable on cosmological time scales.
