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To: betty boop
Where do the laws of the Universe come from? How do you explain that?

I don't know. No one does. I can conjure up an explanation; anyone can. Virtually everyone has. It seems to be a univerally popular human pastime.

My provisional (and very Aristotelian) assumption is that the laws of the universe are inherent in the nature of matter and energy, and don't need to come from anywhere else -- if indeed there actually is somewhere else. But I can't prove any of this; nor can anyone demonstrate that the laws of nature have some other source. It's all speculation. The best we can do -- so far -- is to discover what the laws of the universe are; and it may be that we'll never find out their origin.

257 posted on 12/17/2003 9:47:49 AM PST by PatrickHenry (Hic amor, haec patria est.)
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To: PatrickHenry
My provisional (and very Aristotelian) assumption is that the laws of the universe are inherent in the nature of matter and energy....

How did matter and energy acquire their nature or properties?

258 posted on 12/17/2003 10:30:17 AM PST by betty boop (God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world. -- Paul Dirac)
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