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The Boltzmann brain thought experiment suggests that it might be more likely for a brain to spontaneously form in space, complete with a memory of having existed in our universe, rather than for the entire universe to come about in the manner cosmologists think it actually did.
While a monkey is used as a mechanism for the thought experiment, it would be unlikely to ever write Hamlet, according to researchers.. The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type any given text, including the complete works of William Shakespeare.
Diagram of a restricted Boltzmann machine with three visible units and four hidden units (no bias units) A restricted Boltzmann machine (RBM) (also called a restricted Sherrington–Kirkpatrick model with external field or restricted stochastic Ising–Lenz–Little model) is a generative stochastic artificial neural network that can learn a probability distribution over its set of inputs.
Plot of Maxwell Boltzmann distribution of speeds of noble gasses. The plot is of f(v) dv and since I added units along the x-axis of m/s (that is distance per time), the pdf had units s/m. I made this image, and am placing it in the public domain. Pdbailey 17:51, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Boltzmann was born in Erdberg, a suburb of Vienna into a Catholic family. His father, Ludwig Georg Boltzmann, was a revenue official. His grandfather, who had moved to Vienna from Berlin, was a clock manufacturer, and Boltzmann's mother, Katharina Pauernfeind, was originally from Salzburg.
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Ludwig Boltzmann was an Austrian physicist famous for his founding contributions in the fields of statistical mechanics and statistical thermodynamics. Boltzmann may also refer to: 24712 Boltzmann, a main-belt asteroid; the Boltzmann brain, a thought experiment; Boltzmann constant; Boltzmann (crater), an old lunar crater; Boltzmann distribution
The Boltzmann equation can be used to determine how physical quantities change, such as heat energy and momentum, when a fluid is in transport. One may also derive other properties characteristic to fluids such as viscosity , thermal conductivity , and electrical conductivity (by treating the charge carriers in a material as a gas). [ 2 ]