On cosmic natural selection

TL;DR

This paper challenges Smolin's hypothesis by showing that increasing the cosmological constant can boost black hole formation, contradicting the idea that constants are tuned for maximum black hole production.

Contribution

It provides a counterexample to the cosmic natural selection hypothesis by analyzing the effect of the cosmological constant on black hole formation.

Findings

Increasing the cosmological constant can increase black hole formation.

The result falsifies Smolin's conjecture about constant tuning.

Supports the idea that constants may not be optimized for black hole production.

Abstract

The rate of black hole formation can be increased by increasing the value of the cosmological constant. This falsifies Smolin's conjecture that the values of all constants of nature are adjusted to maximize black hole production.