LHC - Cosmology Interplay

Session

Seminar

8 Aug 2007, 14:00

CERN PH-TH

17. The entropic approach to understanding the cosmological constant

Jim Cline

08/08/2007, 14:00

Seminar

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...