LHC - Cosmology Interplay

Session

Seminar

Aug 8, 2007, 2:00 PM

CERN PH-TH

17. The entropic approach to understanding the cosmological constant

Jim Cline

8/8/07, 2:00 PM

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...