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- Is there any theory of model in theoretical physics akin to Wheeler's idea of "Law without law"
When trying to explain from where did all the laws come from, John Wheeler proposed the anaphorism of "Law without law". He proposed that at the "beginning" there were no laws whatsoever, only pure chaos, and that they emerged from randomness and chaos when our universe was created. In his own words:
Every law of physics must be at bottom like the second law of thermodynamics, higgledy-piggeldy in character, based on blind chance. Physics must be in the end law without law. Its undergirding must be a principle of organization which is no organization at all
My question is: Has any other physicist published any model or theory closely related to this notion? (Apart from perhaps Ilya Prigogine and Holger Bech Nielsen)
Every law of physics must be at bottom like the second law of thermodynamics, higgledy-piggeldy in character, based on blind chance. Physics must be in the end law without law. Its undergirding must be a principle of organization which is no organization at all
My question is: Has any other physicist published any model or theory closely related to this notion? (Apart from perhaps Ilya Prigogine and Holger Bech Nielsen)