Steve Dutch
Jul 22, 2017 · 1 min read

What’s the end state of physics? It seems to me there are three possibilities:

  1. There’s an infinite regress of laws, meta-laws, meta-meta laws, and so on. But there don’t seem to be any real infinities in nature.
  2. We reach a final state where we have laws that just are, with no further meta-laws behind them. We find an array of fundamental particles that just exist with no other explanation, and have charges and masses just because. Seems a bit philosophically unsatisfying.
  3. We have a self-referential web of meta-laws, each explained by other meta-laws. The Law of A is explained by the Law of B, which is explained by the law of C………which is explained by the Law of Z, which is explained by the Law of A.