# \#baby-universes **URL:** https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/tag/baby-universes/221.md [Latest](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/latest.md) · [Categories](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/categories.md) · [Tags](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/tags.md) --- ## [Avi Loeb: “Was Our Universe Created in a Laboratory?”](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/avi-loeb-was-our-universe-created-in-a-laboratory/207)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [27 October 2021 15:50 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/avi-loeb-was-our-universe-created-in-a-laboratory/207 "2021-10-27T15:50:47Z")
In his 1999 book, The Life of the Cosmos, Lee Smolin suggested that the reason the universe appeared to be so fine-tuned for complexity and life was what he termed “cosmic natural selection”, in which new baby universes …