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Your "fact" didn't support the grandparent's argument, so now amount of teaching will get him to accept it.

His other fact is also pointless - it doesn't matter how old the universe is now; the idea is that most Boltzman brains will form in the future.




1st. It's not an argument, it's science and what your parent just said violates general relativity (read the lengthly answer given in the thread).

2nd. The great grandparent asked: "So why are we not Boltzmann Brains ourselves?" and that's what was being answered.

I hope that this teaching will get you to accept it...


It does not actually violate general relativity. You can read the response to the post you reference for some more details.


Please explain what "doesn't violate relativity" since from your other response you don't seem to be understanding what is being discussed here.


You made the original claim that it violates relativity so why don't you take your own advice and be more explicit.

The current accepted size of the observable universe is ~90 billion light years in diameter. If you were referring to some other statement that you think violates relativity then feel free to clear things up.

if you're upset about people making assumptions about your comments then (calmly) address those and clarify your point(s). Don't make aggressive and pejorative assumptions of your own.


If you don't know what I was referring to, then why where you so sure that "it doesn't violate relativity" then?

The statement was made about the infinite size of the Universe and the OP (along the way) was talking about the observable Universe. He is mixing the extent of the Universe with the spatial dimensions of the Universe (so, the better word here is actually space). It is still an open debate if the dimensions of the Universe (space) are infinite (although what we knows seems to point that way), but the extent of the Universe is not infinite, if it was, that would violate relativity (or the standard model as I explained along the thread).




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