Humanity is not part of our universe?
How may times have I told you that everything
evolves, even the fundamental constants?
Fundamental Constants of Physics" The Genes of the Universe
Andy Friedman
MIT Center for Theoretical Physics.
(excerpts)
With his theory of Cosmological Natural Selection, Lee
Smolin makes, what this author views as, a spectacular
attempt to answer this question. He goes a step further
than the mere postulation of a multiverse, and ties
together natural selection, the most powerful principle
of biology, with cosmology, the most all-encompassing
branch of theoretical physics. Smolin's theory provides
a mechanism that explains why individual universes
attain their particular parameter values...
2. The standard model parameters of the baby universe
are slightly mutated from the present universe, in that
they differ only by small and random amounts.
Both of the above postulates are admittedly quite
speculative, but the arguments in favor of them
have considerable force.
Accepting for now the two postulates, namely that
black holes contain baby universes and that parameter
values are randomly mutated from parent to child
universe, what do we get? As Johan Baez emphasizes,
"Now given these hypothesis a marvelous consequence
ensures" Darwinian evolution! Those universes whose
parametrs are such that many black holes are formed
will have many progeny, so the constants of physics
can be expected to be "tuned" for the formation
of many black holes."
Via the network of embedded parent child black
hole universes, this mechanism "sweeps out"
the whole parameter space of all possible
universes, but distinctly favors by natural
selection those that produce more black holes.
Have made the intuitive leap of applying
natural selection to entire universes, the
power of the idea becomes clear. Natural
selection is such a broadly applicable
principle that it applies to ANY evolving
complex system, whether it happens to be
ecosystems, galaxies or baby universes.
In this way, the fundamental concepts
of physics can no longer be viewed
as unexplained numbers that merely
happen to exist. In fact the take on
a newer, grander importance, as the
creations of the cosmological natural
selections, and none other than the
genetic code of the universe
http://web.mit.edu/asf/www/PopularScience/Friedman_FundamentalConstants_2001.pdf
> and why those values are relevant and not others.
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> As it turns out, it takes 26 dimensionless constants to describe the
> Universe as simply and completely as possible, which is quite a small
> number. Even at that, they don't give us everything, because there are
> some important things that are FUNDAMENTALLY STILL UNKNOWN
> [emphasis authors] about our Universe.
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> The above article is a model basis for discussing fine-tuning. As
> recent topics in T.O. have shown, lacking it or similar necessarily
> results in a descent into irrelevant _beliefs_.