(February 16, 2016 at 7:11 am)Allanon Wrote: How do you know that the laws operate universally? Have you been to every part of the universe?
We can explain that the hypothesis of order is supported by our daily observations: the rhythm of day and night; the regular ticking of clocks etc. The most powerful expression of this state of affairs is found in the successful application of mathematics to make predictions expressed by means of the laws of physics.
As our direct information refers to finite experiments, it is not out of the question to discover local rules, functioning on large, but finite scales, even if the global behaviour of the process seems to be random. Space scientists can pinpoint and predict planetary locations and velocities well enough to plan missions years in advance. Astronomers can predict solar or lunar eclipses centuries before their occurrence. All such predictions were not possible if the known laws were not working universally.
