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by idiotsecant 440 days ago
How much mass is required to form a black hole in a new universe with perhaps different physical constants? It could be that 'ability to make black holes' is a prerequisite for successful universes in the way way that good genes are a prerequisite for successful organisms. The universes that fail to spawn black holes are 'dead ends' so any life is statistically likely to find itself in a black hole spawning universe.

Maybe there is an 'incentive' for universes to form with physical constants tuned to produce black holes with the available energy in that universe.

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This circle of ideals seems to be known as: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_natural_selection