How can the universal laws of physics come from a random act of chance?
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First, let's take the Big Bang theories of the early universe.  I presume that's your reference.  Those theories begin with the state of the universe as we observe it today, and how it is changing (expanding).  Then they assume the physical laws which govern the physical behavior of the universe are unchanged.  Then they extrapolate into the past as far as imagination allows (currently 13.7 billion years).  This puts all the matter and energy of the universe into your extremely dense 'ball of mud'.  Then they try to check their calculations by taking this as the initial state of a simulation and see if they can get the result to look anything like our universe.\n\nThat's certainly speculative science, but it is science.  But it addresses the origin of neither the ball of mud nor the laws of physics.  Big Bang theories do involve chaos and chance, but they don't say the laws of physics came from chance.  They just are what they are.\n\nSo, where did the ball of mud and the laws of physics come from?  "God created them." is the only answer that's in any way satisfying.
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Of all time. There is so much choice, but here are 5 and why:\n\n1. Isaac Newton - introduced mathematical formalism to physics and created calculus (he called it fluxions)\n2. James Clerk Maxwell -  gave the first unified explanation of electromagnetism\n3. Ludwig Boltzmann - gave the first mathematical interpretation of the profoundly important second law of thermodynamics, and derived the Botlzmann distribution for gases\n4. Max Planck - founded quantum mechanics\n5. Richard Feynman - developed the first way to handle the fiendish equations of sub nuclear particle physics,  and thereby made quark theory possible\n\nOf the 5 I would pick Feynman as my number 1 - no other physicist has had such profound intuition as to how the universe works. You can still buy his popular science books.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton%27s_law_of_universal_gravitation
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Law of probability is working here.
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The laws of physics ARE the laws of nature... what else is there??
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Well let me explain it.\n\nYes there is probability. But it is very small. Theoreticians\nhave predicted a particle that on anhiliation can create a small black hole. This black hole can grow by eating nearby matter. This way, it's gravitaional pull will increase.\n\nHole ---> eats matter ----> becomes bigger  ----> eats more matter.\n\nThis way, it will eat up the whole of the universe !!\n\nBut as I said, chances are rare !!!
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Ancient. This is the "Law of Superposition. See\n \nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_superposition
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Entropy is a measurement of probability.  Say that there's two chambers of pink gas connected by some tubing.  The pink gas is free to move around between the two chambers.  \nIs it possible that every particle of gas will rest neatly in the first chamber?  Yes.  Is it at all probable?  No way.  The chances of that happening are nearly nothing.  That's because of entropy.  Entropy is disorder, and everything likes to go to higher disorder.
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Universal Law of Gravity.\nALL objects attract each other with a force of gravitational attraction. This force of gravitational attraction is directly dependent upon the masses of both objects and inversely proportional to the square of the distance which separates their centers.\n\nWhere ever you are gravity has got you some way, however weak, something somewhere will be pulling you towards it.
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Yes, the random movement causes the particles to move away from each other.  It is a random process, but over time it will happen.  Think of letting gas out of a balloon.  Within a few minutes the gas will be evenly distributed around the room by the random vibrations of the particles.
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Sometimes things happen just by chance or accident.  Put all the right ingredients together - over millions and millions and millions of years...
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well entropy is the measure of the randomness of the particles in question.
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"god does not play dice" has been attributed to eintein but he was in fact misquoted on that issue. quantum mechanics and relativity being unified is the most important thing physics has been looking for since the discovery of quantum mechanics.It is unnerving that one set of laws applies to all matter but at a microscopic level a completely diderent set of "rules" apply
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“…the possibility of any occurrence happening to anything at any time…” I think you’re referring to the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics but you’re putting the popular “new-age” spin on it. Quantum theory outlines the exchange of energy between the four fundamental forces and explains the interactions of these quanta with atomic and subatomic particles. Certain counterintuitive observations from the quantum world, or "quantum paradoxes," can be removed by invoking the many-worlds interpretation but it is still just an interpretation and it doesn’t really allow anything to happen anywhere at anytime. If you’d like a great introduction to this, try reading The Cosmic Banditos by A. C. Weisbecker.\n\nScientific theories will never capture God, they explain the phenomenological world not the spirit; quantum physics is science not theology. If you look for science in God, you’re looking in the wrong place. If you look for God in science, you’ll miss the whole thing.
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The possibility exists, but what is the chance?
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Basic logic dictates that material, mortal, 'local gods' of sorts, that came about by natural processes, MIGHT be possible, though NOT possibly covering all areas, and if existent, then most likely very rare... but that a universal god (as is the common definition of 'god') is impossible, due to being a specific entity, and therefore incompatible with abstract principles, such as 'everything' (i.e. the universe). Saying that there is a universal god is thus no less illogical than using, say, the number '2', as a principle in the derivation of a mathematical theorem.\n\nThat's not even counting the vast observational evidence against creationism and in favor of naturalism.
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The intricacy of the laws that govern our universe make me think it must be designed rather than random.  \n\nIf you really are interested, there are many books about the how modern science almost proves that there is intelligent design based on the shear overwhelming number and perfection of physical laws that can be used to describe the universe.\n\nHas Science Found God? The Latest Results in the Search for Purpose in the Universe - by Victor J. Stenger\n\nOr\n\nLife, the Universe and Everything: Investigating God and the New Physics\nby Andy Fletcher\n\nare just two.\n\nGive em a try!