Its namesake, Ludwig Boltzmann, was a 19th-century physicist operating in a period when scientists were passionately debating whether the universe had existed for an infinite or finite time.

它的名字源自一位 19 世纪的物理学家路德维希·玻尔兹曼，当时，科学家们激烈地讨论着宇宙已经存在了无限长的时间，还是有限长的时间。