(March 9, 2016 at 8:33 pm)ignoramus Wrote: Guys, dumb question again.
Do you guys think that what happens entirely at a subatomic level is fixed? Or is it entirely feasible that these particles could act in a completely different manner in another universe?
Eg, leading to a different periodic table? (If matter forms as we know it in the first place.)
If something like string theory is at the bottom of everything (nobody knows of course...) then the physical constants such as particle properties and masses, and also which particles exist, are an environmental fact similar to the orbits of the planets, except more stable. In such cosmological scenarios, after and during cosmic inflation, different patches of the universe can settle with very different "physics". So it is at least conceivable, if far from proven.
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