72 citations · 148 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for
3 papers
hep-th2008★ 27 cited
Future Foam
Raphael Bousso, Ben Freivogel, Yasuhiro Sekino +4
We study pocket universes which have zero cosmological constant and non-trivial boundary topology. These arise from bubble collisions in eternal inflation. Using a simplified dust…
hep-th2007★ 72 cited
Boltzmann babies in the proper time measure
Raphael Bousso, Ben Freivogel, I-Sheng Yang
After commenting briefly on the role of the typicality assumption in science, we advocate a phenomenological approach to the cosmological measure problem. Like any other theory, a…
hep-th2007★ 49 cited
Landscape Predictions from Cosmological Vacuum Selection
Raphael Bousso, I-Sheng Yang
In BP models with hundreds of fluxes, we compute the effects of cosmological dynamics on the probability distribution of landscape vacua. Starting from generic initial conditions,…