Quantum Evolution
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"Frontiers of Time" Wheeler writes about "Law without law" [2]: | "Frontiers of Time" Wheeler writes about "Law without law" [2]: | ||
| - | : "It is preposterous to think of the laws of physics as installed | + | : "It is preposterous to think of the laws of physics as installed by a Swiss watchmaker to endure from everlasting to everlasting when we know that the universe began with a big bang. The laws must have come into being." |
| - | by a Swiss watchmaker to endure from everlasting to everlasting | + | |
| - | when we know that the universe began with a big bang. The laws | + | |
| - | must have come into being." | + | |
Paul Davies summarizes Wheeler's point of view about the | Paul Davies summarizes Wheeler's point of view about the | ||
laws of physics in the following way [2] | laws of physics in the following way [2] | ||
| - | : "Perhaps there are no ultimate laws of physics, only chaos. | + | : "Perhaps there are no ultimate laws of physics, only chaos. [...] Lawlike behavior might emerge stepwise from the ferment of the Big Bang at the cosmic origin, instead of being mysteriously and immutably imprinted on the universe at the instant of its birth. [With this considerations] Wheeler was breaking a 400-year-old scientific tradition of regarding nature as subject to eternal laws." |
| - | [...] Lawlike behavior might emerge stepwise from the ferment | + | |
| - | of the Big Bang at the cosmic origin, instead of being | + | |
| - | mysteriously and immutably imprinted on the universe | + | |
| - | at the instant of its birth. [With this considerations] Wheeler | + | |
| - | was breaking a 400-year-old scientific tradition of regarding | + | |
| - | nature as subject to eternal laws." | + | |
Sudden and unpredictable emergence of structures is an | Sudden and unpredictable emergence of structures is an | ||
