Neil Turok
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard 22 Jun
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The room full of gas, which I mentioned, doesn't require anyone to smooth it out.
It's just typical.
But there are two points of view.
One point of view in thermodynamics is called the ergodicity.
The argument is, even if I put the molecules in the room in one corner and the rest was vacuum, if I let it go, they will bang around and smooth themselves out.
And so that the argument is that if you let the system evolve, it's going to find the typical state itself.
That's a traditional view of thermodynamics, but there's another, and this is the same as the inflationists view.
They said, look, um,
They said there's basically no time for the universe to smooth itself out.
Because it's only been 14 billion years.
It's not in equilibrium.
It came out of a big bang.
There wasn't time.
And this is where the horizon argument comes in.
They said, you know,
two patches of space that were causally disconnected, couldn't interact.
How could they smooth themselves out?
It's impossible.
But that is within the philosophy of ergodicity.
Now there's another philosophy which says, no, ergodicity has nothing to do with thermodynamics.
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