If change is the only constant in this world, why does everything thrown up, come down?

Question

This tries to question the common perception that change is the only thing constant in this world... If this perception were true, why were the fundamental laws of nature applicable right from the beginning of time... aren't they also constants to begin with? Basically, I think that change is a concept introduced by man because he doesn't have the capability to full grasp the cycles that happen in the earth... For example, the life cycle of humans... Viewed by phases - adolescence, puberty, adulthood - they all represent the changes that a human undergoes... But viewed from its totality, they are actually constants in the equation called human life... So maybe, change is not really as constant as we see it today... Despite the fact that some of these changes, are dramatic, they may actually be constants, in some equation which we have no capability of understanding nor comprehending yet! This question is basically to get the general perception of Yahoo people, so pls ans respnsbly...

Answer 1

I'm not exactly sure what the nature of your question is, as it appears to me to be littered with ambiguity, but I'll try my best.

Our world is observed to have and generally believed to have a good number of physical constants. These physical constants are fixed unchanging attributes without our universe which dictate order and disorder within. If these constants are truly fixed, then not even change could been seen as a true constant, for change would not penetrate all totality. However, change is certainly a quality of existence. Nearly all things changes, except for those things which facilitate, dictate, and control change itself. Those, we could propose, are the mechanisms of change, and they are, themselves, unchanging. Everything we toss into the sky here on earth, falls back to the ground, by the pull of gravity. However, gravity doesn't operate in all regions of space in an identical manner. Gravity has a strength variable. If we were to toss the same object outside of out atmosphere, into space, it may very well move on indefinitely, not to "come down" again.

Answer 2

The basic answer to your question is Chaos Thoery.

You are quite correct there is no such thing as true randomness in this universe, and change is just a concept to allow us to formulate an idea of how our universe runs.

Chaos Theory states that there so are many different laws running and controlling what happens at any one time that the result will not only be probably different each time but that it will become tottally unpredictable after a certain amount if time.

If you apply this to a simple coin toss. Well most people would say that it is either heads or tails, but they are missing the point. There is so much more going on.

There is the force with which the coin if tossed,
the movement of the air the coin has to go through,
the gravity that acts apon the coin as it travels,
the rate of rotation,
the material that it lands on,
the mass of the coin,
the magnetic forces in the area,
etc.

All of this conspires to bring a result (i.e. where it will land and what it will be) that would appear to be totally random. However if we were to know all of the variables involved then we can calculate exactly what it would be and where.

Our universe is a Chaotic system and this is what makes us believe that it is constantly changing, when in fact it is always the same univserse just different results from all the laws govering it.

Hope this helps.

Answer 3

The four fundamental forces of nature work constantly to correct the breaking of symmetry that occurs with every moment on earth. Gravity, electromagnetic waves, weak and strong nuclear force are constantly stabilising the movement that breaks symmetry. Think about standing on a large rubber ball. You have to keep correcting against the movement of the ball. Each movement of you or the ball also requires further change and shift. That is how these 4 forces continually move or change to restore symmetry. Change is thus the only constant.

Answer 4

Depends on your definition and interpretation of change.

I see a ball moving as a ball changing in position. The atoms in the ball are changing positions, even if you weren't to throw the ball (assuming that the ball is in an environment where the temperature is above absolute zero).

Some change is constant, yes, but not all. Just because change is constant, does not mean there are no constants. That would be a paradox.

Perception is everything.

Answer 5

Change isn't the only constant in the world but it is the most difficult to deal with. It doesn't feel like a constant. It sucks. It's always pulling the rug out from under us. Hard for control freaks to deal with. Need some stability & constancy, order & control! I'm not a fan of change & chaos...Some change is necessary of course. It certainly isn't easy.

Answer 6

events and experience is what is always changing. not physics or true nature of the world

Answer 7

everything that falls is not what fell before...it is something in the present not the past. example...my kids current mess on the floor...i pick it up and something else drops in its place.
gravity sucks. peace

Answer 8

Great philosophical thoughts...the answer to your question tho, is...GRAVITY