
Lee Smolin - Think About Nature
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The Principles of Natural Selection to Predict Our Present Universe
On this vast array of scales, the universe is not boring on any scale you look at it. Why? And it turned out to be two connected reasons. One of them is if the laws are very special, one way they're very special is that they have parameters in them which we don't know the reasons for. So I started to imagine a scenario where the numbers could change in some violent events. Maybe the Big Bang was not the first moment of time. maybe that was a violent event where our universe grew out of some previous universe.Maybe those numbers altered the way that when a new individual is born, the genes are different than the parents. You can't do science assuming that
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