Extending cosmological natural selection

TL;DR

This paper proposes an extension to Smolin's cosmological natural selection hypothesis, suggesting that universes evolve towards stable mathematical structures through cosmogenic drift, potentially explaining the quantum relativistic nature of our universe.

Contribution

It introduces the concept of cosmogenic drift as a mechanism for universe evolution, extending the natural selection framework to include the emergence of quantum relativistic universes.

Findings

Universes evolve towards stable mathematical structures.

Cosmogenic drift can explain the emergence of quantum relativistic universes.

Extended hypothesis offers a new perspective on universe parameters.

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to propose an extension to Lee Smolin's hypothesis that our own universe belongs to a population of universes evolving by natural selection. Smolin's hypothesis explains why the parameters of physics possess the values we observe them to possess, but depends upon the contingent fact that the universe is a quantum relativistic universe. It is proposed that the prior existence of a quantum relativistic universe can itself be explained by postulating that a process of cosmogenic drift evolves universes towards stable ('rigid') mathematical structures.