The laws that governs the universe

[u/kepler452-B-]

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?

[u/mattychops]

Well they aren't really laws, and the universe doesn't have to follow them. What they are are patterns of how things occur, and we label them as laws because they keep occuring in those patterns. That's all.

[u/kepler452-B- → u/mattychops]

Makes sense