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Gerd Binnig, Nobel laureate in physics in 1986, proposed in his article "The fractal structure of evolution" [1] that everything in the universe, including its laws, had changed and became what we have got today through a process which mixes some concepts from darwinian evolution and fractal cosmology. I had some questions about this article and mr. Binnig ideas that I would like to clarify:
1. In that article, Binnig says that everything in the universe has resulted from an evolutionary process, including the laws of nature. But does this apply even to the most fundamental laws of nature? Would even the fundamental laws be subject to change in his theory of evolution applied to the entire universe? Or, on the contrary, only low-energy/effective laws could change?
2. Binnig describes his theory as closely related to Mandelbrot's fractal geometry. There are some cosmological theories that are also related to this, like Andrei Linde's cosmological inflation models. In fact, he seems to cite one of Andrei Linde's articles on inflationary cosmology which mixes fractals with the multiverse hypothesis [2] . Linde's models are closely related to the multiverse hypothesis, since they predict the existence of multiple universes. Since he cited Linde's models about multiple universes, was Gerd Binnig considering the possibility that multiple universes could exist? And if that was the case, would all these universes be also subject to change in his cosmological evolutionary process?
[1]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/016727898990170X
[2]: https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.881088
1. In that article, Binnig says that everything in the universe has resulted from an evolutionary process, including the laws of nature. But does this apply even to the most fundamental laws of nature? Would even the fundamental laws be subject to change in his theory of evolution applied to the entire universe? Or, on the contrary, only low-energy/effective laws could change?
2. Binnig describes his theory as closely related to Mandelbrot's fractal geometry. There are some cosmological theories that are also related to this, like Andrei Linde's cosmological inflation models. In fact, he seems to cite one of Andrei Linde's articles on inflationary cosmology which mixes fractals with the multiverse hypothesis [2] . Linde's models are closely related to the multiverse hypothesis, since they predict the existence of multiple universes. Since he cited Linde's models about multiple universes, was Gerd Binnig considering the possibility that multiple universes could exist? And if that was the case, would all these universes be also subject to change in his cosmological evolutionary process?
[1]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/016727898990170X
[2]: https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.881088