Brane Worlds, the Subanthropic Principle and the Undetectability Conjecture
| dc.creator | Gato-Rivera, Beatriz | |
| dc.date | 2003-08-19 | |
| dc.date | 2004-08-26 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T09:46:16Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T09:46:16Z | |
| dc.description | In the recent article `Conflict between anthropic reasoning and observation'(gr-qc/0303070) Ken D. Olum, using some inflation-based ideas and the anthropic premise that we should be typical among all intelligent observers in the Universe, arrives at the puzzling conclusion that `we should find ourselves in a large civilization (of galactic size) where most observers should be, while in fact we do not'. In this note we discuss the intriguing possibility whether we could be in fact immersed in a large civilization without being aware of it. Our conclusion is that this possibility cannot be ruled out provided two conditions are met, that we call the Subanthropic Principle and the Undetectability Conjecture. ----- En el reciente articulo `Conflicto entre razonamiento antropico y observacion' Ken D. Olum, basandose en algunas ideas sobre la inflacion cosmologica y en la premisa antropica de que tenemos que ser tipicos entre los observadores inteligentes del Universo, llega a la sorprendente conclusion de que `deberiamos encontrarnos en una civilizacion grande (de tamanio galactico) al igual que la mayoria de los observadores, mientras que de hecho no lo estamos'. En este articulo discutimos la posibilidad de que nuestra civilizacion este de hecho inmersa en una civilizacion grande, sin que seamos conscientes de ello. Nuestra conclusion es que esta posibilidad no puede descartarse si se cumplen dos condiciones, que llamamos el Principio Subantropico y la Conjetura de Indetectabilidad. | |
| dc.description | Dedicated to Giordano Bruno, Latex, 15 pages. Four new footnotes, one last paragraph in the Appendix and several minor improvements in the redaction. Spanish version also available | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0308078 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0308078 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/163473 | |
| dc.subject | Popular Physics | |
| dc.subject | Astrophysics | |
| dc.subject | General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Theory | |
| dc.title | Brane Worlds, the Subanthropic Principle and the Undetectability Conjecture | |
| dc.type | text |