⚖️ Juriscrudence
Physical Law is a tower made of hows, built from the top down, through centuries of careful measurement and painstaking calculation. It grants almost magical powers of prediction, explaining how this thing happens and that. It’s what all of our technology is built on, and is arguably our finest creation. Many believe these hows to be whys, and think that if we build deep enough we will one day reach foundations. This idea is without grounds.
👽 The Thirst Law
Long ago, aliens discovered Theory of Quenching. This states that living humans will consume water several times a day, and can never go longer than 4 days without a drink. Confirmed by centuries of abductee experiments, quenching theory eventually earned its place as the First Law of Human Motion, a physical law explaining why humans gasp and clamour for water.
Thirst, it seems, was an alien concept.
🪞 Its and Us Things
People in another timeline discovered Orb’s Laws. These state that firstly, all planets must orbit their sun, and secondly that all moons must orbit their planets. Things that passed through or were flung out of our solar system were not planets or moons, and not just because they didn’t stick around for long enough to be seen, but because that would violate Orb’s laws. After next Tuesday’s event, they say, the world will end and the moon start its new orbit around the sun. Thanks to Orb’s Laws, we can be sure that whoever evolves next will learn the Truth, and know that Luna is a planet.
🙊 Commandments
Scribbled onto a thin sheet of wood with a brownest crayon, the mouth sounds of apes can predict many things with remarkable accuracy. But these physical laws can’t prescribe, only describe. The babblings of apes can only command apes, they are only the reasons why apes move, and what apes think. And how things appear to unfold are rarely why things happen. Us things are us things, and it things are something else.