(July 19, 2011 at 5:58 pm)Alastor Wrote: I grew weary of this thread and stopped responding, but this statement has revived my interest. I've never known anyone to assert the claim that the laws of physics have always been likely to exist. I am curious as to why you reason this to be the case.
You don't know very many people that have taken a high school logic class or math class, do you? We have one universe, which gives us a sample size of one to test 'how likely something is'.
Let's do some fun math here. We have one (1) universe. In this one (1) universe, the laws of physics are the way they are. We have no (0) other samples to test this against because there are to our knowledge no other universes out there.
Therefore as far as we know, the laws of physics have a 1:1 chance of existing in the states they are currently in. Any numbers that anyone else makes up are just retarded overanalyzation based on the assumption that something shouldn't or couldn't be the way it is unless their magical sky daddy made it so.
And of course, the laws of physics weren't created to cater to our needs, we were formed out of the rules formed by the already-existing laws of physics.
