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There are legitimate questions if physical constants are constant everywhere in the universe, and also whether they are constant over time. Just because we conceive something "should" be a certain way doesn't make it true. The zero and negative numbers were also weird yet valid. How is the structure of mathematics different from fundamental constants, which we also cannot prove are invariant.




The constants don't have to be the same everywhere. It is sufficient that everywhere in the universe follows some structure and rules, that's all.

Otherwise we have a random universe, which does not seem to be the case.


> It is sufficient that everywhere in the universe follows some structure and rules, that's all.

What is that sufficient for?

>Otherwise we have a random universe, which does not seem to be the case.

Why jump to randomness, rather than to the possibility of undiscovered laws?


What the heck, how is "undiscovered laws" different from "structure and rules"?



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