Another of Wheeler’s Questions
There is also another of Wheeler’s question: “Why there are any ‘Laws of Nature’?” Wheeler himself says only this much on this subject:
If I say that the laws of physics did not exist forever but they came into being, along with the big bang, then there ought to be some microscopic fraction of a second in the earliest days, when those laws haven't quite got hold, when things could come out contrary to the laws as we see them, in their firmly established shape of today. I can't be specific on that, but that is at least my present-day answer to your question, can they be violated? Yes, in the very beginning of the world; yes, in the very end of the world.
I think that in order to be able to address this question we must start with the most primitive constituents of the world, perhaps with something similar to Leibniz’ “monads”, or the “Ur-alternatives” of CarlFriedrich von Weizsäcker.
The Third Question: A New Branch of Science
The third question “Why the “one world” out of many observer-participants?” cannot be answered without first addressing the question of biology and life itself. And here it is that we find Heim’s “organization dimension” which is eerily similar to Rupert Sheldrake’s speculative concept of “morphogenetic fields”.
Thou Shalt Not Ask Questions About Dangerous Topics!
The subject is so difficult and so unusual that it is going to take more than Burkhard Heim or yours truly; it will require the focus of an entire new branch of science..
Unfortunately Science today is not really interested in going there. Scientists are mainly busy with their personal careers, getting their papers published, getting grants, getting support from politicians and from the industry.
Those who have really original thoughts, even if they have all the necessary qualifications, will lose their jobs if they work on those things that might alleviate the sufferings of humanity. Or, as it also happens, they may find a job sponsored by the “NavalSurface Weapons Center”.
P.S.1. Why the One World out of many observer-participants? Louis Armstrong gives a simple down to earth answer in his song "What a wonderful world" - which I dedicate to my wife
P.S.2
"Shun the barren snare of an empty metaphysics and the dry dust of an unfertile intellectuality. Only that knowledge is worth having which can be made use of for a living delight and put out into temperament, action, creation and being."Sri Aurobindo
P.S.4. 17:02 . New version of my notes on the conformal group. Added Sec. 8.1. Introduced the tautological bundle. Updated the previous section on affine structure.
