The life of the cosmos
The life of the cosmos by Lee Smolin is a 1997 Science & Technology book written by TED speaker Lee Smolin, paired here with the talk they gave.
The pairing
- Paired talk: "How science is like democracy: Lee Smolin on TED.com" (2008), 338K views on TED.com
- Timing: Published 11 years before the talk.
- In the catalogue: The 1st of 2 books by Lee Smolin on Books Worth Reading (1997–2013), by publication year.
- Edition: Phoenix, 1997 · 358 pages
The paired TED talk
How science is like democracy: Lee Smolin on TED.com (2008), the TED talk by Lee Smolin.
From the publisher
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