(January 24, 2009 at 12:19 pm)Darwinian Wrote: But the 'laws' of physics are simply human creations themsleves.
The laws of physics do not have to describe reality itself but instead simply explain and predict observations made by humans. They are not laws in a legal sense but instead are simply conclusions based on repeated scientific experiments and simple observations, over many years, and which have become accepted universally within the scientific community.
I have trouble understanding how a cataclysmic or chaotic event (the Big Bang) has given rise to so much 'order' ie the 'laws' of physics e.g gravity and how this order is maintained? Stenger is going to be discussing this in his book so I may get a different 'take' on your understanding of these laws.
"The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility"
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein