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Why does nature have to be lawlike?
by krazii 5y ago
Why does nature have to be lawlike?
- silent_cal 5y agoIf it wasn't, we couldn't do any science.
- dboreham 5y agoOtherwise there's no spec for the sim developers to follow.
- tsimionescu 5y agoNature doesn't have to be anything. However, a universe that doesn't have any laws would be an amorphous mush. Forget about planets and stars, it could not even have atoms or molecules - you need an awful lot of stable structure (i.e. laws) to get something as complex as a water molecule out of random particle interactions.
- ciphol 5y agoOur investigations ever since the scientific revolution have progressively shown it to be more and more lawlike. It would be a bit of a surprise if this stopped being true.
- silent_cal 5y agoScience assumes that nature is lawlike. Otherwise it would be senseless to make predictions.
- ciphol 5y agoYes - I would add that a philosophically-knowledgeable scientist knows that nature does not HAVE to be lawlike. But like you say, the process of science is hypothesizing laws and checking to see if those laws make predictions. So far this process has been very successful.