Comment by sgt101
7 years ago
>They might be refined, but are not all that wrong. Even Newtonian physics is under many circumstances a close approximation of reality.
They might become wrong; we assume that the laws of physics are fixed and immutable, that they have operated unchanged for all time so far and will continue to operate unchanged for the rest of time. Some physics acknowledges that that they may change at the edges of time, but it may also be the case that they are subject to sudden radical shifts.
Depends on what you define as the laws of physics.
We have cases where the laws of physics break for example singularties and it’s generally accepted that at certain energy levels forces can join or split for example during and shortly after the Big Bang the it’s assumed that all of the forces were joined together.
There is also the Higgs field which is not clear if it can change states or not and if it has done so at any period in the past which is not directly observable.
In fact the laws of physics “changing” is one of the possible answers to how the matter anti matter symmetry broke in the first place and allowed the universe as we know it to form.
However ofc any global change in any of the “fundamental” laws/constants will end all existence as we know it.
I didn't say that it would be all funshine and icecream!