Apart from the unsolved mystery of the universe's origin what do you think might be the origin of universe's rules? I am talking about physics/mathematics/chemistry/etc. rules, the ones that scientists study and discover through their study of material reality. Please try to give serious answers. Thanks for that.
2007-01-21 23:17:40 · 5 answers · asked by Alexander K 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
There are several competing hypotheses regarding this. Some feel that these rules (such as the mass of a proton, the charge of an electron, gravitational constant, etc.) are innate characteristics and constant. It's kind of like asking why is yellow yellow and not green.
Others think that the values are dependent on initial conditions at the start of the universe or are completely arbitrary. To explain why we should be so lucky, various versions of the anthropic principle and multiverses are employed.
2007-01-21 23:30:20 · answer #1 · answered by gebobs 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The chemistry rules come from physics.
At least some of the physics rules come from mathematics. This is a huge topic, see for example Roger Penrose (2006) "The Road to Reality". Our understanding of physics is incomplete, and some of the rules do seem arbitrary to us, for example why are there four or five forces of nature (electromagnetism, strong force, weak force, gravity, maybe Dark Energy) and not more or less? Why are there three space dimensions and one time? Why does the speed of light have the value it does? These things are unknown.
Where does mathematics come from? That's a really hard one. It seems to come from logic, which comes from our brains, which run on chemistry, which depends on physics, which depends on mathematics...
2007-01-22 09:30:41 · answer #2 · answered by cosmo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The rules that govern the universe had to exist at the instant the universe came into existence or it would not have known what to do.
Even though nothing had traveled at the speed of light the principal that limits it had to exist from the start.
All other rules [physics,chemistry etc.] had to derive from what existed at the beginning.
2007-01-22 09:54:22 · answer #3 · answered by Billy Butthead 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I quite like the anthropological principle, which basically says that if the rules were other than they are (even by a little bit), neither you nor I would be here to discuss them. So the rules are just the way they are, no other explanation.
2007-01-22 07:26:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe#Other_terms
2007-01-22 08:07:42 · answer #5 · answered by Mikhil M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋