Phenomenology of the Watcher measure in the Bousso-Polchinski landscape
Abstract
We investigate the phenomenology of the "Watcher" measure in the Bousso-Polchinski landscape. We study a small toy landscape analytically. The results are sufficient to allow us to extrapolate "watcher" phenomenology to much larger landscapes. We compare our results to other measures which have been applied to BP landscapes containing googles of vacua. Under certain well motivated conditions, watcher phenomenology coincides with the causal patch prescription, but not Linde's volume weighted measure.
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