How Simple Rules Bootstrap the Laws of Physics | Quanta Magazine
Compared to the unsolved mysteries of the universe, far less gets said about one of the most profound facts to have crystallized in physics over the past half-century: To an astonishing degree, nature is the way it is because it couldn t be any different. There s just no freedom in the laws of physics that we have, said Daniel Baumann, a theoretical physicist at the University of Amsterdam.