(Image credit: Michael Stevenson/UIG via Getty Images) The universe could be teaching itself how to evolve into a better, more stable, cosmos. That's the far-out idea proposed by a team of scientists who say they are reimagining the universe just as Darwin revamped our view of the natural world. The controversial new idea attempts to explain why the laws of physics are as we see them using a mathematical framework to describe various proposed theories in physics, such as quantum field theories and quantum gravity. The result is a system similar to a machine-learning program. Scientists have discovered numerous physical laws and quantities with fixed values to define the universe. From the mass of an electron, to the force of