(November 19, 2012 at 10:14 am)Daniel Wrote:(November 18, 2012 at 12:48 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Since all laws of physics govern the whole Universe - at least as far as we can tell (how's that for arrogance?) - you would have to step outside to be out of their frame of reference.The universe doesn't work on the laws we give it, it has its own. The laws of physics are what we invented (theorized) they're not something we derived as absolute universal truth.
Okay, while it is true that physicists invented the concept of physics in the sense of definable laws, it is not true to say that we then imposed them upon the Universe. It's rather like saying that there was no colour blue in the Universe before we invented a word for it. Just as in physics, it's the exact opposite way round. If there were no physical principles operating at all, there would be nothing to describe, which is all a theory does. So in fact the laws of physics are something we derived as absolute Universal truth, since they describe the physical principles which govern the Universe.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
