Origins of Natural Laws

The business of physics is the abstract quantification of facts observed in nature. The rules we form for reconstruction and expression of the observed facts are the laws of nature and Principles of nature . The distinction between them is tied to their generality. Principles are considered to be more general and by implication more basic. For example, the Principle of Least Action is inferred from several of the force laws and the principle of Conservation of Energy expresses all the various heat and energy flow laws.

Since laws are obtained by measurement of nature rather than derived from other knowledge, they are by definition empirical and "of unknown origin". Therefore if we seek to find the origins of laws we cannot use the existing laws themselves but must use other observed facts together with logical deduction and established mathematics. Rarely a law is found contained within another law. For example the gas lawPV=nRT half a century ago was seen to be a result of Newton's laws and QM applied to molecules in a closed container. Such serendipity is the exception; today, the search for origins must probe deeper into nature than heretofore and we must be prepared to find unprecedented perspectives of nature. Growing evidence cited by Galeczki [1] is compelling that the basic laws are intimately involved with cosmology and and are dependent on relationships between individual particles and the remaining matter of the universe. Accordingly in the search for the the origins of natural laws, observations of unexplained puzzles of quantum particles and cosmology are attractive sources of input data.