Lee Smolin

If black holes concede universes, then advanced civilizations might eventually ask whether they can influence that process.

Could you create a black hole with chosen properties? Could those properties affect the child universe's constants, dimensionality, or initial conditions? Could universe-making become a form of cosmic reproduction, with universes selected or engineered through their black holes? This idea even appears in Lee Smolin's notion of cosmological natural selection, where universes that produce more black holes might produce more offspring or baby universes, allowing a kind of evolutionary process among cosmic laws.

We should also be careful not to imagine a star collapsing and magically producing a full, duplicate cosmos, with galaxies ready to go.

In most versions, the parent black hole would supply some initial conditions, not a finished inventory.

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The album's table of contents identifies Mortimer Zuckerman, who once lectured on city and regional planning at Yale, physicist Lee Smolin, a former assistant professor in the 80s, and psychiatrist Henry Jarecki, an adjunct who retired from the School of Medicine last year, as contributors.

Now, of course, all these people will tell you they have no idea what was going on.

And according to them, Epstein was an upstanding guy, right? Hell of a fella, that Jeffrey Epstein guy.

Or at the very least, they've met before and had some association.

And the Harvard Crimson reported that two-time acting Harvard president Henry Rosofsky, among several other university affiliates, also contributed.

Lee Smolin, who taught physics at Yale from 84 to 88 as an assistant professor, has made major contributions to the field of theoretical physics, appears in Epstein's birthday book under the category of scientist.

In 2019, Smolin told The Verge, a technology news outlet, that he saw Epstein at scientific conferences in 2007 and had no contact with him since 2008.

We already went into that.

Usually you do mechanics before quantum mechanics, but I wanted to take the advice of Dr. Lee Smolin and put quantum mechanics in there pretty early on so that we have a foundation for some of the more important phenomena areas of physics.

There's a lot of physics that covers mechanics, there's a lot of physics that covers quantum mechanics, and they are separate.

At some point soon we need to go into further detail about that subject.

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The album's table of contents identifies Mortimer Zuckerman, who once lectured on city and regional planning at Yale, physicist Lee Smolin, a former assistant professor in the 80s, and psychiatrist Henry Jarecki, an adjunct who retired from the School of Medicine last year, as contributors.

Now, of course, all these people will tell you they have no idea what was going on.

And according to them, Epstein was an upstanding guy, right? Hell of a fella, that Jeffrey Epstein guy.

Or at the very least, they've met before and had some association.

And the Harvard Crimson reported that two-time acting Harvard president Henry Rosofsky, among several other university affiliates, also contributed.

Lee Smolin, who taught physics at Yale from 84 to 88 as an assistant professor, has made major contributions to the field of theoretical physics, appears in Epstein's birthday book under the category of scientist.

In 2019, Smolin told The Verge, a technology news outlet, that he saw Epstein at scientific conferences in 2007 and had no contact with him since 2008.

... readings on the Fermi paradox is the reason you don't see many civilizations that have gotten to past the point we are is that typically when they get to this point where they have the capacity to blow themselves up, they blow themselves up.

Now, I guess the good news, if you believe in Lee Smolin's cosmological natural selection and you believe in the subset of it, the particular variant of it that could explain why biological evolution would have a purpose, and in that variant, intelligent life is conducive to the replication of the universe, right? Like for example, suppose black holes are the portals of replication.

Well, maybe if you get, if you reach super intelligence, you know how to create a ton of those.

You create them, and so you wind up with more and more universes that do have the properties that led our universe to be conducive to life, whatever.

Another take on this idea is that our cosmos is part of a population, and that its properties are in fact inherited and primed by cosmic natural selection.

In 1992, theoretical physicist Lee Smolin proposed our entire universe may exist within the causally disconnected confines of a black hole, belonging to a parent universe from which we've inherited our traits.

He postulated that black holes compile a small sample of their outside universe's physics via the information flowing across their event horizons, which then acts as a blueprint for a new child universe.

But much like reproduction here on Earth, the transfer of genetic information from parent to child universe is not thought to be airtight.

I'm not in the business of actually cooking up proper models of how things go.

But there is, you know, for instance, Lee Smolin is a, is a sort of cosmologist who has this idea, and I'm not saying I'm advocating for this in particular here, but he has this idea where, um, and I, you know, forgive me, Lee, forgive me.

Uh, but the idea is something like, you know, there are these...

Stuff falls into black holes, and then what's happening in the, when the stuff goes into the black holes is sort of comes out the other side somewhere, and it makes, making a new universe basically, and that as everything is forced through them, what pops out in the other side might be a kind of like slight modification of the laws and stuff that was in the original universe where the black hole lived.