Where do the Physical Laws come from?

stevefaulkner

We keep searching for the Physical Laws but is anyone looking for the Laws that brought them about?

Is it not inconsistent to expect Physical Laws to have no cause?

Foundations of The Quantum Logic

Dadface

I think physical laws come from observations.They don't necessarily explain how nature behaves they summarise how we perceive it to behave and any law is only as good as the observations it conforms to and correctly predicts within its own zone of applicability.

WaveJumper

They likely come from where matter comes from - from the undefined.

apeiron

If laws are the result of emergent regularity - the self-consistent patterns or attractor states that a set of initial conditions will settle into as an equilibrium - then you could put their "cause" into the future of a system, rather than its past.

The second law of thermodynamics already has this form, for example. Systems will develop towards their equilibrium.