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I don’t think what you’re asking for is possible, and the answer lies more in the realm of philosophy than in physics. You can always keep asking the question
by smallnamespace 7y ago
I don’t think what you’re asking for is possible, and the answer lies more in the realm of philosophy than in physics.
You can always keep asking the question ‘why?’ At some point, either you have just accept something as fundamental, or the answer justifies itself, or you have an infinite regress of whys.
- jordanpg 7y agoI agree with this generally, but I don't think questions like "why are the laws of physics the way they are" are obviously questions for philosophers only and I'm not simply asking "why?" Only very low-level ontological questions meet this criteria, like "why is there something rather than nothing," but even then, I am open to the possibility that there are reasonable explanations for these things that we just can't articulate yet.