Abstract

This paper proposes a speculative cosmological framework in which universes may form successive generations through a hypothetical quantum-gravitational transition associated with terminal black-hole states. The central hypothesis is that a universe need not reproduce its parent universe's observable physical laws, numerical constants, matter composition, or large-scale structure exactly. Instead, information associated with a parent universe may be transmitted through a lower-dimensional hereditary state, subjected to a bottleneck and mutation process, and subsequently expressed as a new set of effective physical properties in a child universe.

The framework distinguishes cosmological phenotype from hereditary state. Observable quantities such as effective constants, particle content, symmetry structure, topology, dimensional characteristics, and other physical properties constitute the phenotype. A potentially deeper state H represents information that may encode ancestry without requiring direct preservation of observable constants. The proposed generational transformation is H_i -> B(H_i) -> M[B(H_i)] -> S(M[B(H_i)]) = H_{i+1}.

The model permits substantial divergence between parent and child universes while retaining statistical hereditary continuity. A viable lineage is therefore characterized not by parental resemblance but by increasing or sustained novelty together with statistical detectability of ancestry in an appropriately defined representation.