Natural Laws, as I understand it, are a set of equations we have discovered that represent the behaviour of physical objects that tend to repeat along the Universe and time ( gravity always pull objects, etc).
Yet I've always found the notion a bit strange. natural laws merely describe things, but it doesn't explain why things tend to behave the same way through time ( natural laws don't impose a kind of force on matter so that it behaves according a set of equations. We know particles work in a certain way, though there isn't any aparent reason to explain why they don't simply change for no reason, given they seem to stay the way they are by exactly the same reason: no reason at all! ).
At first I though It could be a kind of "fundamental" thing that cannot be changed: like, electrons can only have a certain number in their electron charge, and for a mysterious reason it must stay that way even when there is no force imposing or restricting any logically valid value ( for some reason this idea doesn't suffice me. I find it really ad-hoc that constants simply cannot change for absolutely no reason except that they can't ) ¿what do you think about this?
However, theoretical physics have been pulling a lot the idea of Multiverses, where ( like in string theory ) the constants can indeed have a very big range of values, so there isn't actually anything trully fundamental about the constants we have (at least in this hypothetical scenarios ). so, ¿in this scenarios, what it is that make it possible for the properties of the fundamental quantum fields to stay the same in time, if there is nothing that prevents them from changing and at the same time there is nothing that make it be that way?
I would like to hear your opinions about this issue, thanks.
Yet I've always found the notion a bit strange. natural laws merely describe things, but it doesn't explain why things tend to behave the same way through time ( natural laws don't impose a kind of force on matter so that it behaves according a set of equations. We know particles work in a certain way, though there isn't any aparent reason to explain why they don't simply change for no reason, given they seem to stay the way they are by exactly the same reason: no reason at all! ).
At first I though It could be a kind of "fundamental" thing that cannot be changed: like, electrons can only have a certain number in their electron charge, and for a mysterious reason it must stay that way even when there is no force imposing or restricting any logically valid value ( for some reason this idea doesn't suffice me. I find it really ad-hoc that constants simply cannot change for absolutely no reason except that they can't ) ¿what do you think about this?
However, theoretical physics have been pulling a lot the idea of Multiverses, where ( like in string theory ) the constants can indeed have a very big range of values, so there isn't actually anything trully fundamental about the constants we have (at least in this hypothetical scenarios ). so, ¿in this scenarios, what it is that make it possible for the properties of the fundamental quantum fields to stay the same in time, if there is nothing that prevents them from changing and at the same time there is nothing that make it be that way?
I would like to hear your opinions about this issue, thanks.
