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To: The Looking Spoon

Let us ask one simple question: WHY do the quarks, leptons, Higg’s bosons, gluons, etc, all obey mathematical laws? They’re tiny particles, they can’t be using little calculators to see what orbits they should follow, can they? We say that they obey the laws of physics, but I don’t see any tiny police officers enforcing these laws.


3 posted on 12/29/2014 5:27:08 PM PST by proxy_user
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To: proxy_user

The human body is an endless procession of miracles. OF COURSE real science cries out the existence of the Creator God.


4 posted on 12/29/2014 5:32:21 PM PST by alstewartfan (A bear won't treat you so You're satisfied to know When he chews you up he still respects you! AL S)
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There is only ONE “police officer”. lol


5 posted on 12/29/2014 5:35:56 PM PST by alstewartfan (A bear won't treat you so You're satisfied to know When he chews you up he still respects you! AL S)
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To: proxy_user

Well, you have to start off with inertia. Left to its own devices, matter wouldn’t “choose” to do anything, it would just sit there. So the only possible reason that particles are orbiting in a certain way is that something (a “force”) is forcing them to do so.

So, the better question is “why do forces work the way they do?” Or “why do the forces obey mathematical laws”?

We’re not really near the point where we could answer those questions scientifically though. We are still trying to figure out the most accurate mathematical representation of those forces, and can’t barely even speculate about the origin of the forces themselves or why they might operate the way they do.


20 posted on 12/29/2014 6:30:39 PM PST by Boogieman
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Let us ask one simple question: WHY do the quarks, leptons, Higg’s bosons, gluons, etc, all obey mathematical laws?

Mathematics are derived following one simple rule: contradictions are not allowed. You start out with simple ideas using this rule then build proofs upon this foundation. If reality itself is objective that means contradictions cannot exist. Things are as they are. Should one be surprised that a system of proofs based on no contradictions maps so successfully upon a reality that has no contradictions?

30 posted on 12/29/2014 11:55:38 PM PST by Nateman (If liberals are not screaming you are doing it wrong!)
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The mathematical laws are explanatory. They, of course, don’t cause anything.


31 posted on 12/30/2014 12:21:46 AM PST by JimSEA
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