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…

1. Whether or not the research cited in this LSAT passage is real

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:

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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