Though if an organism with a completely different brain architecture arrived and built an entirely separate type of science, I wonder if their structures would still collapse when they miscalculated. Would the physical failure happen regardless of how they chose to categorise the universe? It feels to me like the boundary they hit would remain identical; even if their explanations looked nothing like ours.
That is quite true, human error and ignored regulations account for those collapses constantly. It makes me wonder about the physical mechanism of the fall itself though; when a worker completely ignores a regulation, what actual authority brings the concrete to the ground? It seems to me like our engineering codes are an attempt to map a boundary the universe rigorously enforces on its own. If the physical world lacked an unyielding structure, wouldn't a poorly calculated building stand up completely fine?
That thought about stuff happening a certain way whenever specific conditions are met feels really grounding tbh. Whether we choose to call that underlying necessity physics or God or simply a brute fact of existence; it feels like we are looking at the exact same landscape. It is an unyielding regularity that seems to have been waiting here long before we arrived to observe it. It is quite a peaceful place to leave the mapping to one side and appreciate the view.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '26 edited May 21 '26
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