Earth's organisms developed via evolution. What if the cosmos did, too?
The short version
- It rather cheekily extended the American theoretical physicist Lee Smolin's wonderful, powerful, oddly neglected theory of cosmological natural selection; the idea that universes…
- While I was having dinner with my five-year-old, a friend texted to say that the piece was at number one on Hacker News.
- At the time, I didn't really know anything about the website, or its readers – but I learned a LOT over the next few hours…
- Think of it as a startup disrupting cosmology!
- Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49539805 Points: 13 # Comments: 5
The story
Last year, I wrote a speculative cosmology piece called Blowtorch Theory. It rather cheekily extended the American theoretical physicist Lee Smolin's wonderful, powerful, oddly neglected theory of cosmological natural selection; the idea that universes reproduce, with variation, leading to Darwinian evolution of universes.
While I was having dinner with my five-year-old, a friend texted to say that the piece was at number one on Hacker News. At the time, I didn't really know anything about the website, or its readers – but I learned a LOT over the next few hours, as my dinner went cold (and my son got to watch cartoons)!
Anyway, I greatly enjoyed (most of) the robust discussion that followed there, and thought Hacker News readers might be interested in this new Smithsonian Magazine overview of the remarkably healthy state of evolutionary cosmology, a new field emerging around these ideas. Think of it as a startup disrupting cosmology!
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49539805
Points: 13
# Comments: 5
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