Brand New Cosmos

Evolving the Cosmoi DNA Strands in Your Peanut Mind

Came across an article by João Magueijo . It’s a rehash of the old idea of cosmic darwinism.

It’s desperation. Instead of admitting you are too pathetic to find the laws of nature, you go for the gross whole hog of evolutionary explanations. Only there is no cosmic DNA to evolve my dudes.

This idea of Lee Smolin, and now jumped upon by Magueijo, is utter nonsense.

It may of course be true.🤣

But it is not a chaotic cosmology. If you find the DNA strands for actual physical reality, then you’ve merely found the base laws. They will not in turn be chaotic. Chaos is simple laws, in non-linear dynamical systems. Where’s the cosmoi interactions?¹ Yeah. I highly doubt there is any genetic component to the Laws of Physics. Why? Because we are already pretty close to fixing them down. We do not need cosmic darwininsm, for example, to explain a CPT-symmetric Big Bang and the Arrow of Time, and the Standard Model. The symmetry principles (among them conformal symmetry and CPT-invariance) are sufficient.

One can always dream up further metaphysical questions. But they’re not scientific. They can be valid, and well-posed, but still not scientific. Science does not, and should not, seek to answer every question a mind can ask. Hubris never does anyone any ultimate good.

What a lot of science n3rds also fail to realize is that Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution was itself not fundamental science. It is based upon random mutation of genes and selection pressure. But that is a Top Down argument, it is not reductionistic.

Once you mention Selection pressures you are lifting to a higher category, one which is only ever approximate. A geneticist in a lab CRISPR editing genes is performing “natural selection”?

Darwin’s theory of evolution was always incomplete, until molecular biology came along and provided the physical mechanism.

Same for cosmic darwinism. If it truly is a thing, then we’d be able to find the physical basis for it, the “molecular biology” so-to-speak of entire cosmoi. I call ꕗꖹꝆꝆꕷꖾꕯꖡ on the idea.

Try harder João, to understand the laws we know, before inventing fantasy meta-laws that allow all things possible. Stop doing science in the comic book Marvel Multiverse.

I like SciFi, don’t get me wrong. But I dislike false advertising. Same for Brian Greene and Jana Levin and their Klein Bottle universe. That should be published in SciFi Monthly alongside Greg Egan pieces, not in PhysRevLett. People call us nontenured guys crackpots, but who are the real Dementors of trust in science?

In our times of fascism, is there anything more important than pointing out species survive because they tolerate the weaklings? Not by tolerating the above specimens.

1. It’s supposed to be Inflaton bubble nucleation. But that’s not evolution, since there’s no interaction. It’s just “throw in every universe, and we’ll be in one of them.” That’s not even good philosophy. Besides, in the not too distant future in our universe, the Inflaton Theory will probably be proven empirically false (whcih is far worse than logically false: to echo Eddington — if your theory contravenes logic so much the worse for your axioms, but if it contravenes empirical observations you have no hope). The data keeps going against Inflation theory. If there are no primordial gravity waves (tensor modes in the CMBR), that kills all natural inflation theory off entirely.