Fact Checking The LSAT 2: Secrets of the Multiverse

In November of 2018, the LSAT confused a generation of future
lawyers with a Reading Comprehension passage that seems to say
there are definitely multiple universes out there. Not only was
this an infamously tough passage to score well on, it shook
students’ sense of reality to the core. Today, with Branden
taking some time off to prep his students for the August
LSAT-Flex, Jelena fact checks the PT 86 “high-entropy multiverse”
passage.


Put your science hats on and learn…
Whether or not the research cited in this LSAT passage is real
How other physicists feel about the theory that we are merely one
random fluctuation floating around in a sort of multiverse soup
Where the researchers mentioned in the passage are now Our
one-to-five gavel rating for this passage (one gavel = almost
certainly true; five gavels = almost certainly false)

Links and further resources from from this week’s episode:



2004 Coverage of Carroll and Chen’s initial paper &
hypotheses: https://bit.ly/3jB2TVl



Carroll & Chen’s original paper that inspired PT 86 Passage
4: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0410270



NASA’s recent, surprising universe-expansion speed news:
https://go.nasa.gov/2EzZZ4l



Researcher Sean M. Carroll discusses his entropy & “arrow of
time” theories on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3jy4pHy



“Arrows of Time Without a Past Hypothesis,” a 2020 paper building
on Carroll and Chen’s work:
http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/17468/



Christopher Gregory Weaver roasts the Carroll-Chen Model:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1309.4976.pdf



Sean Carroll interviewed by Wired about his new book:
https://bit.ly/2YSgKyG



Is there a mirror universe where time moves backwards? (Carroll
thinks so): https://bit.ly/2YVaENY



Quantum Mechanics creeped out Albert Einstein:
https://bbc.in/3gMgMOr



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