Source: From Quarks to Quasars
A new hypothesis hopes to explain the universo and its purpose in a new way - using natural selection.
The theory of evolution by natural selection is one of the most elegant and by far one of the most encompassing theories humanity has ever come up with. Even though it was originally proposed in biology, the underlying idea has been applied to scientific fields across the board. From a cosmological perspective, scientists are attempting to use the same line of thinking. What if the laws of physics have been fine-tuned over the eons, via evolutionary processes, where universes create offspring through black holes? That idea might not be as insane as you think.
"Comoslogical natural selection" (also known as 'fecund universes theory') was first proposed by Lee Smolin, an eminent theoretical physicist and professor at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics more than two decades ago. He has continued to make revisions to his hypothesis, but the basic idea is simple: can we use evolutionary terms to describe the universo.
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