静电复印分布：大宇宙中的科学推理
The Xerographic Distribution: Scientific Reasoning in a Large Universe
摘要：
作为宇宙的观察者，我们是宇宙中的物理系统，如果宇宙在空间和/或时间上非常大，那么我们预测所依据的数据在时空的其他位置被复制的概率就变得很大。因此，对我们未来观测结果的预测需要一个假设的概率分布--静电复印分布--来确定我们在可能的分布中的位置。正是基础理论加上静电复印分布的结合，才能通过进一步的观察来预测和检验。这是通过检查一个玩具模型的经典确定性宇宙与一个固定的平坦度规。
英文摘要：
As observers of the universe we are physical systems within it. If the universe is very large in space and/or time, the probability becomes significant that the data on which we base predictions is replicated at other locations in spacetime. Predictions of our future observations therefore require an assumed probability distribution---the xerographic distribution---for our location among the possible ones. It is the combination of basic theory plus the xerographic distribution that can be predictive and testable by further observations. This is illustrated by examining a toy model of a classical deterministic universe with a fixed flat metric.
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