The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe.
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Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.
Every fundamental law has exceptions. But you still need the law or else all you have is observations that don't make sense. And that's not science. That's just taking notes.
I strongly believe that the fundamental laws of nature are not emergent phenomena.
I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.
It is clear that it is not man who has created the universe - whether you believe in God or in gods or deny any divine presence - man cannot alter the laws that govern the universe without damaging it.
The fundamental laws of physics do not describe true facts about reality. Rendered as descriptions of facts, they are false; amended to be true, they lose their explanatory force.
The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
The law in question asserts, that the quantity of force which can be brought into action in the whole of Nature is unchangeable, and can neither be increased nor diminished.
It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed in formulating them.
It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control.
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