Where do the laws of physics come from?

It is often wondered why the laws of physics are consistent and why they have the values they do. For example, why is the speed of light 300,000 kilometers per second and not a different value?

All values were determined at the time of the Big Bang. Just as a road made of cement or a road made of wood would have different characteristics and allow different performances on it in terms of speed, friction, etc., all values were all determined at the time of the Big Bang. If the Big Bang occurred again with different parameters, then we would see different laws of physics and different values for so-called “constants”. If there is a “multi-verse”, then we can expect that the laws of physics and the constants could be different in each one.

Nature of the universe

The nature of our universe is similar to that of a supernova. Though it was once thought that a supernova was the birth of a star, in fact, it is the death of a star. In the same way, the “creation” of our universe was really its death. The Big Bang marked the end of our universe and as carrion, we are living off the corpse of our dead host.

Like a small airplane in a storm, the dynamic energy that buoys and lifts the plane in the air is the very same energy that will rip the plane asunder and send it crashing into the ground. In the same way, we live and move in ST which itself is the manifestation of entropy, which will one day destroy all that we know. Thus, “how to stop entropy” is a non-question. Entropy is intrinsic to SpaceTime (ST); ST is its vehicle. Without entropy, there would be no ST and thus no life as we know it. Entropy allows us to live and act. It gives us a dynamic space in which to experience the universe. Without it there would be stasis. But it is also the vehicle of our doom.

Following the death of the universe, some transient energy still subsists, much like the energy and light given off by a firecracker, but it is inexorably fading. ST is the motor of entropy in that it is inexorably moving us toward Ultimate Dissolution.

Ultimate Dissolution will come about when matter is so far flung that even gravity will become irrelevant. Thus, it is not incorrect (though it is unconventional) to say that entropy affects gravity as well as ST and MatterEnergy (ME) because after all, gravity is a property of curved space, yet if space has inflated to the point that curvature is no longer possible, then we can say that it has been “phased out”.

One way of seeing gravity is like a sort of nostalgia for the original unity of the universe. This nostalgia shall itself fade away with time, as the unifying potential of gravity completely erodes.  

Universe made up of two components

The universe is made up of two distinct and opposing components: Space-Time (ST) and Matter-Energy (ME). These two components account for everything in the universe and everything constituting the universe. Both are at odds with each other. ST makes up the very fabric of the universe while ME makes up the contents of the universe. ST is uniform and cannot be reduced into smaller parts while ME can be reduced into a succession of smaller and smaller parts.

ST is linear and constantly expanding and advancing in all directions; in contrast, ME tends toward compression and unity. ME is ruled by gravity which tends towards unity and shortens distances while ST is an expanding linearity of ever-increasing distances that undermines the force of gravity by constant inflation. ST is linear and drags ME ever outward in a linear manner while ME curves ST around it.

The interplay of these two opposing components determines the dynamic of interactions in the universe, and events in the universe can best be understood by seeing the universe as a tension between ST and ME .