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Say, you shuffle a deck of cards, and shuffle really well. Now you could spend forever by drawing cards from the deck and analyzing the sequence and trying to think of theories how to predict the next card. But the is no ultimate reason behind why the deck was shuffled into this order and not some other.

Perhaps the shape of natural laws (the four fundamental interactions) and the values of natural constants have been arrived at by a similar process. Perhaps there is a multiverse of different universes with different variations of these natural laws, and we just happen to live in this one.

If this is how our universe came to be, shouldn't we be ready to accept it, instead of searching meaning where there is none?

Then again, this is just an idea. And not really even falsifiable. So it's difficult to say if this is even a scientific idea, in the strict sense.

Or perhaps Einstein was right, perhaps God didn't play dice (I am really misusing this phrase here), and there is an underlying mechanistic model which explains everything.

Who knows.




The deck of cards analogy is sort of getting to the anthropic principle -- the natural laws could have come out any number of ways, but most of the other shuffles wouldn't result in us being here to contemplate them.




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