the meaning of life?

Maybe there is a soulless physics principle that is "accidentally" or otherwise (a "force" like the principle of least action) finding ways (aka "life") to speed along to the heat-death of the Universe because smart energy-extracting replicators are flattening energy differentials faster and faster, apparently "accidentally" in search of a final stillness.  If they use all energy they can find to build the most rigid or energy-less structures that others can't utilize, then movement is over, excepting whatever heat is left over from any in-efficiencies in the replication/extraction history.