We start our episode by acknowledging how the term “laws” subconsciously affects us into thinking they are constructible and engineered entities such as governmental laws which shows how much role language and framing play in our thought processes. Then, we introduce a few thought experiments to demonstrate that the laws might arise from preventing these paradoxes from occurring rather than them being engineered. We dive even deeper into questioning why the Universe follows logic at all and what the world would look like if there were no laws governing the Universe. We go back to the question of how many laws are governing the Universe and whether they are even quantifiable. We also question if we can continue to ask “why” to every natural phenomenon and whether they would imply that there are an infinite number of laws. In addition, we question if the laws of the Universe are finite, research will ever stop and what life after Truth would be like. To understand the essence of the laws of nature better, we investigate how we come to understand mathematical and physical laws as well as the constants. We introduce a “blind mathematician” thought experiment and try to analyze whether it’s possible to intuitively understand mathematical or even physical concepts while having no observation or empirical data of the world. Furthermore, we question if the laws of physics, such as Maxwell’s equations, could be derived without experimentation and purely from mathematical concepts. We also question if there were to be two different sets of laws that are derivable/underivable with imagination and logic only, this would give distinction to the laws of mathematics and physics. Finally, we scrutinize the essence of mathematical and physical constants and whether it is possible to make physical constants dimensionless and more “fundamental” like mathematical constants. (ex. setting the permittivity of free space equal to 1 to make the mathematical value of electric flux equal to only the charge enclosed) We conclude that because the units are constructed, the “realness” in physics is focused on the proportion rather than the numbers and the exact values. We also explore how these mathematical and physical constants are related to each other and whether we can count the number of them. We end off by introducing a hypothesis such as a variable speed of light and what the social impact the change of fundamental constants would have and how we should address them if they ever occur. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lunchlogic/support
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Dec 24 202340 mins