Why is there anything? (Introduction)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Friday, July 29, 2011, 19:44 (4866 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained

"But that implies that the laws of physics were somehow encoded into the fabric of our universe before it existed. How can physical laws exist outside of space and time and without a cause of their own?"
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> I think this pretty well sums it up for me. In order for any of our theories to work, regardless of the theory the laws of physics had to be in operation prior to their being anything. What better divining rod could be asked for?-The big bang model posits however an initial reality where literally no laws of physics existed except for quantum nondeterminism. The laws of physics don't exist prior to the singularity, they require there to be space and particles first. This is why "The laws of physics break down" at the moment of singularity, because everything there ever was was shoved into the tiniest of spaces. This is, in fact, why we can even have the debate in the first place. (If material laws came into existence with the prime cause, we literally have ex-nihilo.)

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