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One of my important interests is Evolutionary Philosophy.
This is a topic that is particularly active on this Darwin Anniversary year.
It starts with the concepts of Darwinian evolution of life on Earth including the modern systems concepts that show beyond the basic "survival of the fittest" a system needs to have the ability to evolve and the ability to cooperate when the situation arises. This results in a complex ecology of different species in an environment.
This concept can then be extended forward to include the basis of human interactions.
More significantly it can be extended backwards to the origins of our universe and the physical laws that control everything. The big argument is that the improbable balance of many critical parameters in the laws of physics that led to stable atoms stars and life did not happen as a random chance but evolved as the universe cooled from the big bang and uncertainties diminished by "choosing" a path that maximised recycling and enabling evolution.
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ReplyDeleteSorry Ian didn't mean to comment anonymously,googled evolution and entropy and fetched up here. Forgot that we are at war elsewhere. No offence intended. good luck with you"glob"
DeleteCan see where you are coming from.Can't see how you would produce anything testable.A lot of Physics is like that at present .I suppose that the Philosophy angle release you from the usual constraints place on physicists,this always leads to intellectual trouble .Would be interested to see the mathematics which underpins the approach
ReplyDeleteBeen thinking a bit more about this.As things evolve something needs to tend to a maximum or minimum (I think).You have said it is "recycling" and I am not clear what that is .So what is the connection between entropy and stable atoms I wonder ?A long time ago someone pointed out that it is a quirk of the strong Nuclear force that leads to the anomalous expansion of water and I started to think then about evolution and its impact on entropy,didn't get far though maybe you are treading a similar path.
ReplyDeleteIf the end state of the universe can be defined (mass energy and entropy then maybe the evolutionary principle is that physical laws evolve to minimise something getting there..Time is tempting but difficult,time will exist whilst there is temperature,If the creation of black holes looks to be a guiding principle then that might just be a step along the way
ReplyDeleteMaybe forming atoms is an optimal root to creating black holes.
ReplyDeleteAnd I think it is the Universal Constants that vary rather than the laws themselves
ReplyDeleteTurns out final state is defined (De Sitter) on basis of General Relativity and someone has just got there based of Thermodynamics.Someone else has shown that gravity can be just considered an "emergent force" from thermodynamics . Interesting times !
ReplyDeleteMoving on now ,thanks for providing the impetus to look more into this.
ReplyDeleteSorry I missed you. Just in case you are still around. Here are a few replies.
DeleteRe testing. The final section of the paper goes
into several aspects of this.
By recycling I mean stable or metastable conditions that increase the longevity of interactions between the various elements of the universe. Waves particles and more complex structures of waves and particles. a typical cases are orbits of gravitating bodies and orbitals of electrons and the strong interactions that produce atomic nuclei.
By the laws I meant the constants that define the laws rather than the laws themselves most of the laws depend on the dimensionality of the processes involved.
re black holes Lee Smolin in his book life and the universe suggested that the physical laws were balanced to for our universe to maximise the number of black holes that it produced.
ReplyDeleteBlack holes are by far the longest lived structures in our universe as it approaches its heat death. currently our universe is far too hot for stellar mass black holes to evaporate by hawking radiation
I am just posting this to point out that this site is still active. and I am Ian kimber posting via a new computer
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