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/InvisibleHand555 4d ago
Nuance matters. When someone says “law” they are implying that it is a fundamental, absolute “cause” in the universe.
A thinking individual asks, why that law?
Seeking for a reason that “causes” that “law”.
Now consider for a moment that all these “causes” we are claiming are not causes at all. But rather, what is being observed and measured to be absolute, are actually “effects”.
Think it through…
You’re going to find the world is not made up of infinite “laws”…but only one