We humans created them, but they are not arbitrary… it is a utility driven project.
Eventually you’ll find one where I can’t worm my way out and then I’ll simply say that wasn’t what I was on about in the first place.
You’re making my point… that’s an ad hoc utility, winning a random internet debate. However the moment you have to go live your daily life, you’ll revert back to the most practical conception of the world available to you… the reason you WILL do this is because there is an objective reality that doesn’t give a damn about your whims and wants, you know it because you’ve suffered disappointment…
Next you might claim what you meant was that there are physical laws that cannot be broken, but there you’d be wrong too. There are no laws, but just observed regularities. Michio Kaku gives his phd students the problem of calculating the probability that they will suddenly vanish and wind-up on the planet Mars. It’s very much possible for a cold object to make a hot object hotter. It’s possible that you could fall through the floor one day. It’s possible that gravity could suddenly stop working. Anything is possible and there is nothing saying it’s not. The “law” terminology in science is a holdover from religion.
You say “anything is possible and there is nothing saying it’s not.” that’s fascinating… prove it
I can only know what’s possible by what has been demonstrated… I can’t say that it’s possible for gravity to suddenly stop working, I’ve never seen that happen.
I don’t have special knowledge about the nature of reality so as to know what is and isn’t possible unless I have been shown… so how did you come by this knowledge?
See the problem you’re expressing is a real one, in that there are nearly infinite ways in which we can categorize and conceive the world.
And yes it takes religion to believe that objective reality is shaped in the image of ideas so as to expect there to be a “true” conception…
Reality might not conform to any concept… but our concepts can conform to reality, their utility is a measure of their conformity.
That is a means by which we may approach reality… even if there is no “true” conception to be had, there necessarily are more useful ones, and by extension perfect conceptions.
All of our modern science is rooted in this basic recognition… paradigms that are subject to change, models that are subject to revision, based entirely on their utility in providing us predictive power.
A scientific LAW is no different to a mathematical one, in that they are foundational to that particular framework or conception of the world.
You cannot assume gravity only works SOME of the time, yet maintain all the rest of modern physics… you would have to re-imagine physics from the ground up with this new conception of gravity.
That is not to say it can’t be done, only that it would have to be competitive if not superior to modern physics in terms of predictive power…
Now you can rattle on about gravity glitching out randomly being a real possibility rather than an imagined one…
But I won’t be bolting down everything in my house for fear of them randomly floating away, and I suspect neither will you…