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Originally posted by The Hierophant:
How can we be sure that the so-called 'laws' of physics have always been what they supposedly are now? And if the dynamics of physical forces can change, how has/does/will that affect the structure of our multiverse? [/QB]
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the answer is we're not sure if the 'laws' of physics were always the same. or to be more accurate, we aren't sure if the fundamental physical constants (speed of light, gravitational constant, fine structure constant...) are indeed constant or if they changed through time. the debate is not likely to be settled soon, though observations of distant space objets and phenomena have put constraints on possible variations of some of the constants.
however, even if these constants and our 'laws' of physics turn out to be changing through time, it just means there is another 'law' governing this behaviour, one that we are yet to discover. rememeber, that what we reffer to as natural 'laws' are nothing more than aproximations we derived to explain observed phenomena.
[ 09-03-2004, 05:20 AM: Message edited by: frudi_x ]