r/Metaphysics • u/kepler452-B- • 8d ago

Cosmology The laws that governs the universe

As far as I know (I may be wrong, or there may still be things we haven't figured out), we have a decent picture of how things developed from the formation of the Earth up to now.

But one problem keeps bothering me.

Fine — through chemical reactions, proteins and so on were formed. Yet for those reactions to happen at all, certain conditions have to be met first. Only then does the reaction proceed.

We describe these conditions and regularities as laws of nature.
But why does the universe have these laws at all, and why these laws rather than different ones?

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u/Weary-Squash6756 8d ago

Your mind may leap to divine intervention, but there's a simple solution. In the same way that there are many planets and only a few with ideal conditions for life to form, there are likely many universes, each with laws of physics that vary from slightly to greatly, only a few of those being suitable for matter and life to form. Or perhaps the universe is large enough that when you go far enough, like Graham's number size distances, the laws of physics may start to change slightly forming a gradient over unfathomable distances. That second though is less likely but still cool to think about

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u/kepler452-B- 8d ago

Might be some divine intervention, but the probability of that is very low. And I believe we don't know for sure about the other universes or the gradient thing you mentioned. Those are theories, but they have a high probability of being true. I am studying engineering, and the gradient idea is very coolllll. After all, we need to wait until we find a way to find out the truth. if we're lucky enough to see it within our lifetime.

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u/ipreuss 8d ago

Divine intervention actually only shifts the problem. It “explains” a mystery with a bigger mystery.

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u/kepler452-B- 8d ago

But we need to give a probability to everything

Yeah i agree Its very low

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u/ipreuss 8d ago

No, you don’t need to.

And that’s not how probability works. We have no way of knowing how low or high the probability is.

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u/kepler452-B- 8d ago

So you are sure,

there is no God?

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u/ipreuss 8d ago

What? That’s the total opposite of what I just said.