Full Idea
We must ask how we are to explain the manifest stability of physical laws, given that we take these to be contingent?
Gist of Idea
Why are contingent laws of nature stable?
Source
Quentin Meillassoux (After Finitude; the necessity of contingency [2006], 4)
Book Reference
Meillassoux: 'After Finitude: the necessity of contingency', ed/tr. Brassier,R [Bloomsbury 2008], p.91
A Reaction
Meissalloux offers a very deep and subtle answer to this question... It is based on the possibilities of chaos being an uncountable infinity... It is a very nice question, which physicists might be able to answer, without help from philosophy.
Related Idea
Idea 19672 Kant fails to prove the necessity of laws, because his reasoning about chance is over-ambitious [Meillassoux on Kant]