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    PBS Space Time
            Are You a Boltzmann Brain?
                
                    
                        
                            Season 3
                        
                    
                    
                        
                            Episode 22
                        
                    
                
            
            
            Was an incredible drop in entropy responsible for the Big Bang? If that’s the case, this would lead us to conclude that a great many other things are possible, including the likelihood that you are a Boltzmann Brain.
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