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Maybe there's a multiverse--an infinite series of universes, containing all possibilities of existence, some with similar, slightly different constants, others

• willis936 7y ago
  That is called the anthropic principle. The universe doesn't owe its self-aware passengers any answers. It just is. It's up to us to characterize it, and following logical paths that require baseless assumptions such as "beginnings" and reasons for relative constants are not fruitful. You could give up when it gets hard and just say "the reason the relative constants are what they are is magic" (see: god of the gaps). That doesn't change the fact that there is a deeper connection there that a more complete model would explain the constants. Is 9.81 m/s^2 a constant of the universe? We have are empirical constants that fit into our mathematical models. There is more work to be done.