The Life of the Cosmos is the debut non-fiction book by American theoretical physicist Lee Smolin.

A staff-written review from popular-science publisher Jupiter Scientific said of the book:[3] Is cosmological natural selection a theory?

Hence if one changes a coupling constant or a particle mass, the number of black holes should decrease.

The rate of expansion of the Universe, the collapsing processes that build stars, stellar evolutions and supernova production would all change.

If we were interested only in feeling better about ourselves, we might be happy to jump from vitalism to a kind of pantheism according to which life exists because the universe is itself alive.