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Which do you think is more valuable to humanity?a. Finding ways to tell humans that they have free will despite the incontrovertible fact that their actions are completely dictated by the laws of physics as instantiated in our bodies, brains and environments? That is, engaging in the honored philosophical practice of showing that our notion of "free will" can be compatible with determinism?orb. Telling people, based on our scientific knowledge of physics, neurology, and behavior, that our actions are predetermined rather than dictated by some ghost in our brains, and then sussing out the consequences of that conclusion and applying them to society? Of course my answer is b).Jerry A. Coyne
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It may be appropriate to quote a statement of Poincare, who said (partly in jest no doubt) that there must be something mysterious about the normal law since mathematicians think it is a law of nature whereas physicists are convinced that it is a mathematical theorem.Mark Kac
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Blackhole doesn't crush those things in the vicinity. It miniaturises everything in different laws of physics.Toba Beta
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There are reasons to doubt that what we call the laws of physics necessarily apply everywhere in the universe–or that they were applicable to every time in its history.Michael Brooks
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The transition of nothing-to-something is a natural one, not requiring any agent.Victor J. Stenger
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Free will is the sensation of making a choice. The sensation is real, but the choice seems illusory. Laws of physics determine the future.Brian Greene
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Nature seems to take advantage of the simple mathematical representations of the symmetry laws. When one pauses to consider the elegance and the beautiful perfection of the mathematical reasoning involved and contrast it with the complex and far-reaching physical consequences, a deep sense of respect for the power of the symmetry laws never fails to develop.Chen Ning Yang
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Physical laws are ruled by logic, and are ungovernable: so when the die comes to rest on its edge, it owes neither apology nor account.John Hadac