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The Life of the Cosmos
Lee Smolin
"Lee Smolin offers a new theory of the universe that is at once
elegant, comprehensive, and radically different from anything proposed
before....Natural selection may guide the appearance of the laws of
physics, favoring those universes which best reproduce.....Offers an
intriguing blend of the ideas of Einstein and Darwin. Argues that the
laws of nature may themselves be subject to natural selection."

In fact, Lee Smolin has initially discovered that Einstein's idiotic
"law of nature" according to which the speed of light is constant does
not allow Einstein zombie world to reproduce successfully anymore:

http://edge.org/3rd_culture/smolin03/smolin03_index.html
Lee Smolin: "Now, here is the really interesting part: Some of the
effects predicted by the theory appear to be in conflict with one of
the principles of Einstein's special theory of relativity, the theory
that says that the speed of light is a universal constant. It's the
same for all photons, and it is independent of the motion of the
sender or observer. How is this possible, if that theory is itself
based on the principles of relativity? The principle of the constancy
of the speed of light is part of special relativity, but we quantized
Einstein's general theory of relativity. Because Einstein's special
theory is only a kind of approximation to his general theory, we can
implement the principles of the latter but find modifications to the
former. And this is what seems to be happening! So Gambini, Pullin,
and others calculated how light travels in a quantum geometry and
found that the theory predicts that the speed of light has a small
dependence on energy. Photons of higher energy travel slightly slower
than low-energy photons....A very exciting question we are now
wrestling with is, How drastically shall we be forced to modify
Einstein's special theory of relativity if the predicted effect is
observed? The most severe possibility is that the principle of
relativity simply fails....But there is another possibility. This is
that the principle of relativity is preserved, but Einstein's special
theory of relativity requires modification so as to allow photons to
have a speed that depends on energy. The most shocking thing I have
learned in the last year is that this is a real possibility. A photon
can have an energy-dependent speed without violating the principle of
relativity!"

Fortunately, Smolin has also discovered that Einstein's 1905 false
light postulate, like any other law of nature, is subject to natural
selection. So a new species called "Einstein zombie world with
variable speed of light" will emerge soon and this new species will
reproduce so well that, in the struggle for survival, all other
species will disappear forever.

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