Q&A: Laws of Nature – Entities
Laws of Nature – Entities
Question
Hello Rabbi,
I wanted to know whether the Rabbi thinks that quantum mechanics confirms that the laws of nature are entities.
After all, who said that the two particles had to be created simultaneously?
Surely that is something that was not included in the matter itself, but is external to it. (Because the matter did not exist beforehand.)
From here it follows that the conservation law is external to matter, and presumably the other laws as well by induction—how forces attract bodies from outside, etc.
Isn’t that so?
Answer
You mean an electron and an anti-electron, not two electrons.
That is an interesting claim. Conservation laws are seemingly the result of the activity of some factor that ensures conservation. True, conservation of energy or momentum can be the result of the properties of the body itself (that its velocity does not change unless a force acts on it), but conservation laws in the formation of particles are indeed different.
In the article brought below, I pointed out that such formation contradicts a philosophical conservation law (conservation of entityhood / being). That too indicates some external factor:
That claim from the guy on YNET is Hawking’s claim.
In any case, at the Weizmann Institute they answered me that it is not reasonable according to the uncertainty principle formula, apparently, since the greater the energy, the more the time during which it is supposed to disappear also becomes very large. [Except in the period when they thought the total energy was 0 and balanced out in the universe, but since dark energy that is no longer true.]
And regarding laws of conservation of entityhood, I do not know why they are needed. After all, I do not see a difficulty in creating entities, as long as the total energy in the world balances out—isn’t that what Einstein says? In the laws of mass-energy conservation.
Here we see a special conservation of this very law. Surely it is external to matter. If so: a. where does it reside? b. who operates it?