RE: Mathematics and the Universe
January 6, 2009 at 10:21 am
(This post was last modified: January 6, 2009 at 10:23 am by infidel666.)
Quote:What is keeping these laws stable? Why do we call them laws?
Why do we call it the "universe" as in "the word" as in "in the beginning was 'the word?'" The language of early science is rife with such linguistic framings. Perhaps it helped people avoid the fate of Giordano Bruno, whom the church burned at the stake for the crime of teaching Copernicus's "heresy" of a scientifically-based heliocentric cosmology that displaced the Earth from the center of the universe.
So they are called "laws" as in "universal laws" as in "laws of the universe" as in "laws of creation" as in "laws of God." Big deal. Go study quantum mechanics. Einstein and other religious nuts said it could not be correct because it is not orderly and "God does not play dice with the universe ... blah blah blah." But they were proven wrong. That chaotic step funtion I mentioned can be observed.
As to "why predictably repeatable reactions," alternate realities might have environments that do not have orderly interactions, and no life. This one, coincidentally, does. In a chaotic field of existence, it is inevitable that order will be apparent somewhere within that field. Chances are the subset of predictably repeatable interactions would exist, and that we would exist and be just this confused. That's all there is to it.
