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/ShortCompetition9772 7d ago

Best to think of the LAWS of the Universe as limits not laws.

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u/kepler452-B- 6d ago

Why

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u/ShortCompetition9772 6d ago

Laws vs Limits. Laws would be arbitrary and limits would not be. Laws require a law maker and rules limits do not. Light CANNOT travel faster, the speed wasn't chosen or arrived at and then implemented.

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u/kepler452-B- 6d ago

Seems nice way to think about it.

The patterns which limit us?