RE: Can the laws of physics bring something into existence?
June 15, 2014 at 3:27 pm
(This post was last modified: June 15, 2014 at 5:12 pm by Anomalocaris.)
The honest answer is we don't know what proceeded our universe, where our universe is defined as that which we believe much of the aspects of our laws of physics is adaquate for describing. This is precisely because these laws are inadaquate for projecting back beyond some point in time.
What we suspect is there is a more fundamental set of principles from which other aspects of laws of physics can be derived. These fundamental laws would govern explicitly the creation of our universe. Discovering this more fundament set is aim of physics.
As to the claim laws of physics are products of our universe, that is a idiotically useless and uninformative tautology for the purpose of this discussion. So is what created our universe from which we derived our law of physics a part of the greater universe or not? If it is, then laws of physics can certainly transcend what we regard as our universe just as laws of gravitation transcended the solar system.
What we suspect is there is a more fundamental set of principles from which other aspects of laws of physics can be derived. These fundamental laws would govern explicitly the creation of our universe. Discovering this more fundament set is aim of physics.
As to the claim laws of physics are products of our universe, that is a idiotically useless and uninformative tautology for the purpose of this discussion. So is what created our universe from which we derived our law of physics a part of the greater universe or not? If it is, then laws of physics can certainly transcend what we regard as our universe just as laws of gravitation transcended the solar system.
