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| name = The Life of the Cosmos |
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| image = [[File:The Life of the Cosmos.jpg|thumb]] |
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| caption = The Life of the Cosmos by [[Lee Smolin]] |
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| author = [[Lee Smolin]] |
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| country = United States |
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| language = English |
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| publisher = [[Oxford University Press]] |
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| release_date = March 1st 1999 by [[Oxford University Press]] (first published Jan 1, 1997) |
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| media_type = Book |
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| pages = 370 |
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| isbn = 0195126645 |
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'''''The Life of the Cosmos''''' is a 1997 book by theoretical [[physicist]] [[Lee Smolin]]. In the book, Smolin details his [[Fecund universes]] which applies the principle of [[natural selection]] to the birth of [[universes]]. Smolin posits that the collapse of [[black holes]] could lead to the creation of a new universe. This daughter universe would have fundamental constants and parameters similar to that of the parent universe though with some changes, providing for both inheritance and mutations as required by natural selection. However, while there is no direct analogue to Darwinian selective pressures, it is theorised that a universe with "unsuccessful" parameters will reach [[Heat death of the Universe|heat death]] before being able to reproduce, meaning that certain universal parameters become more likely than others. |
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==References== |
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==See also== |
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* [[Quantum mechanics]] |
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* ''[[The Trouble With Physics]]'' |
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*''[[Three Roads to Quantum Gravity]]'' |
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* ''[[The Road to Reality]]'' |
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* ''[[The Elegant Universe]]'' |
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* ''[[The Fabric of the Cosmos]]'' |
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* ''[[Warped Passages]]'' |
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