The Universe Is a Machine That Keeps Learning, Scientists Say

KTSDESIGN/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARYGetty Images New research suggests the universe is teaching itself physics as it evolves.The researchers want to use this study to spin off a whole new area of cosmology research.The “learning” of the universe is similar to evolution.In fascinating new research, cosmologists explain the history of the universe as one of self-teaching, autodidactic algorithms. The scientists, including physicists from Brown University and the Flatiron Institute, say the universe has probed all the possible physical laws before landing on the ones we observe around us today. Could this wild idea help inform scientific research to come? In their novella-length paper, published to the pre-print server arXiV, the r… Click below to read the full story from Men’s Health
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