I love talking about fractals and constants, it seems like nature and the universe is littered with them which brings up the idea of a mathematical universe. Perhaps the universe is mathematical and that's why all these patterns emerge?
This is where natural science and philosophy meet. The traditional take on this has been the watchmaker argument, and science simply uncovers the laws and digs no further. This has become less satisfactory. The simple answer is that the universe must be ordered and mathematical, since we are a result of this order to be able to ponder the question. That is not satisfactory either, since it does not answer the question whether a different universe without us is possible or even more likely.
A universe might have order or not, we might not know for sure, but does mathematics always create order? It turns out that finding mathematical functions creating random numbers is extremely hard, and if we want truly random numbers the best solution so far has been to seed the formulas with measurements of processes at the quantum level.
brilliant answer and you made me think of a word equation..... science+philosophy=metaphysics.
There can be an underlying order and pattern to randomness and on top of that I've been reading about a structure underlying even quantum mechanics? Because quantum mechanics still has some classical mechanics integrated into it but let's say you started with nothing and developed quantum theory from the bottom up? You could find reasons for why reality is the way it is.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/quantum- ... -20170830/
https://www.nature.com/articles/546590a
https://www.quantamagazine.org/20130524 ... unnatural/
Is Nature Unnatural? Why our universe never should have been (strengthens the case for a multiverse)
https://www.quantamagazine.org/frauchig ... -20181203/***
paradox clarifies where our views of reality go wrong
https://www.quantamagazine.org/newfound ... -20171023/
how a wormhole could allow information to escape black holes
https://www.quantamagazine.org/complica ... s-20130524
complications in physics lend support to multiverse hypothesis
https://dailygalaxy.com/2018/12/quantum ... ack-holes/
https://www.quantamagazine.org/real-lif ... -20180625/
https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathemat ... -20180517/
mathematicians disprove conjecture made to save black holes (disproving cosmic censorship conjecture and showing the stability of the Cauchy horizon!)
https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-blac ... -20181206/***
why black hole interiors grow forever
black holes regurgitate matter and energy which creates more space, expansion and the generation of spacetime
https://www.quantamagazine.org/complica ... s-20130524
complications in physics lend support to multiverse hypothesis
https://www.quantamagazine.org/albert-e ... -20181114/
Einstein, holograms and quantum gravity (and more on microwormholes foaming the fabric of space-time)
https://www.quantamagazine.org/closed-l ... -20180725/
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-mult ... -20141103/
The multiverse measurability problem
https://www.quantamagazine.org/multiver ... -20141110/
Multiverse how to find proof from colliding universes
