Do you think in another solar system it would be possible for there to be no law of physics there or at least a completely different law of physics?

No. We can observe lots of different solar systems, and there’s no evidence of that being so.

Another universe, sure, but not another solar system.

Physics laws are standard across our universe.

It has been shown that every point in the universe is the exact same. They obey the exact same laws of physics. If the laws of physics were not consistant, the universe will fall apart. In other solar sytems, the laws would be the exact same. However, the laws aren’t the same in different universes, so other universes could have different laws of physics.

Good, deranged, question.
All the responses above me pretty much explain it fully. @PhiNotPi is probably right in that alternate universes different physics could exist.

@erichw1504 Thanks. Do you think there are other universes? I thought the universe was all the solar systems in existence.

@DerangedSpaceMonkey Personally I do believe there are other universes, but I have no evidence of this nor have I heard of any.

If there were any alternate universes, physics would have to be generalized to apply to all universes.

I would say we don’t know the answers to that. From our small perspective we can examine how and what we think are common laws of physics but when one thinks of other dimensions and even having other dimensions existing in the same space as we exist in then we are frankly just guessing. To say that something is finite like physics is not possible.

@erichw1504 Ok. I was just wondering because I haven’t heard of another one either, but some of the responses I have received here mention other universes, like they’ve been proven to exist and I was just wondering if I had been left out of the loop.

@DerangedSpaceMonkey Are you talking about other universes as in “parallel” or physically existing next to each other?

There are many theories that address the possibility of multiple universes, some related and some not, some scientific and some not, some convincing and some not.

By the way. On the TV show Fringe, the laws of physics are the same between each universe. Not saying that’s how it probably is, being a fictional series. But, it’s just an example.

@erichw1504 I don’t know, I am just talking about another universe, period. And when you ask if I’m talking about a “parallel” one (universe) are you sure you don’t mean another dimension?

Yes.I am not allowed to talk about it

@lucillelucillelucille

Yes I agree and it can’t be talked about yet.

@absalom
You are correct according to Dr. Kaku.

Not in another solar system within our own universe. No.

There’s plenty of things that we can’t explain yet or we’d have a unified theory of everything already. So all bets are off, nothing can be conclusively disproven.

And that’s how hypothetical I have to get to answer this question.

All the people saying “No.” seem pretty sure for people who’ve never been there physically or even virtually.

@Zyx

“All the people saying “No.” seem pretty sure for people who’ve never been there physically or even virtually.”

We don’t have to physically go there. And many, many scientists have been to many, many solar systems “virtually.” They have seen no evidence whatsoever that the laws of physics differ in those solar systems, and there isn’t any plausible reason why they should. It’s those who say that they may differ that need to provide data and a cogent argument as to why, as all the evidence points in the opposite direction.

Actually I was just saying it was undeniably possible and thus all the people definately saying “no” are undeniably wrong. But yeah, it seems pretty unlikely at this point.

There may be places where the laws of physics look different, but when studied you would soon see that the laws are exactly the same, just that other factors where contributing to the phenomenon.

For example, bigger planets have stronger gravity than small ones, and it may be possible to find a tiny planet with really strong gravety, but when you look, you would see that the materials that make up the planet are more dense some how, and that therefore the laws of physics are still the same, just the conditions are different.

The laws of physics are a property of the universe, and therefore remain constant. There could be other universes where the laws of physics are different, but not within our universe. Even if we find something really weird, like a place where say a body at rest remains in motion and a body in motion remains blue, there will be an explanation for how the laws of physics make the laws look different in that place without actually being different.

The laws of physics discovered here on Earth have the power to explain astrophysical observations as well. There is no evidence that the laws of physics are different anywhere else in the observable universe.

To the extent that our observations are limited we can’t know for sure. There’s a related question about whether fundamental physical constants like the speed of light, Planck’s constant, electrical permittivity, etc. are actually constant, over all time and space, even if the basic equations in which they appear still apply—or are they merely local? But again there’s no evidence of this, so one assumes that the constants are constant.

Meanwhile, theorists can speculate…

We have already observed that the same laws apply. Same elements in the whole universe distributed fairly evenly. Tons of empirical data.

You need another universe to hope for different natural laws. But they are kind of hard to observe.