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Unreal Chaos
Monday, October 16th, 2006 by admiral Have you ever asked yourself why anything is impossible? When you sit around thinking about it, proving to all the worlds that you have too much time on your hands, it doesn’t really make sense. What force could impose such rules on reality that some things are allowed to be while others are denied the very right to exist? How would you enforce such a rule? A law is no more powerful than your ability to enforce it.
Why can I not be in two places at one time? Because a single object can only occupy one place in space-time. What if I want to play video games during class time without missing the education that I am paying for? Is the fact that it is impossible enough of an excuse? I understand all of the reasons and rationalizations behind the rule. My question concerns why I cannot break it.
I’ll freely admit that I’m boring. I do sit around and think of stuff like this. Over a long period of time, I have been asking myself about the reason for the universe to have laws. It only makes sense when you take it on faith. And, what if I do not feel like doing that?
Sure, there are advantages to having laws. But, why should I not have a say in them? If I chose to, I could break any law on the books. It would be irrational to outlaw anything that you do not, at lest believe, to be possible. Otherwise, a simple ‘I can’ would abolish every law ever written. Why are physical laws allowed to be so different?
Logically, nothing can be proven. Logic only allows you to disprove. Being right a billion times cannot overcome a single violation of an assertion. As we’ve seen, a model that is wrong can give results that are right. Reasoning allows affirmation but relies upon falsification.
Physical laws must be absolute in order to avoid being cast aside and trampled underfoot. And yet, aside from our convenience, they have no reason to exist at all. We can come up with a long list of reasons why we require physical laws to keep the universe running. The truth is that we do not know any better because we do not know anything else.
Thus ends my time as a stand up philosopher for the day.
