Typicality Defended

2007/07/27 by Page, Don N.
#FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0707.4169

Abstract

Hartle and Srednicki have argued that there is no observational evidence favoring our typicality. Here it is shown that such evidence does arise from including the `normalization principle' requirement that the sum of the likelihoods for all possible observations is normalized to unity in each theory.

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