The Order of Physical Law

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14145v1
• Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2025 03:59:04 GMT
• Title: The Order of Physical Law
• Authors: Ted Sichelman,
• Abstract summary: Second-order legal relations generally concern the intentional, volitional acts of legal actors exercising legal powers.<n>This article adapts the notion of legal order to propose a theory of first- and higher-order physical laws.
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• Abstract: First-order legal relations specify the duties of legal actors. For instance, the duty not to trespass derives from a first-order law. Second-order legal relations generally concern the intentional, volitional acts of legal actors exercising legal powers to change first-order laws or legal relations. For example, a landowner may exercise a second-order power to change another legal actor's duty not to trespass into a legal permission to enter the landowner's property. This article adapts the notion of legal order to propose a theory of first- and higher-order physical laws, contending that current physical theories implicitly (and wrongly) assume that essentially all physical processes can be modeled using first-order laws. Incorporating second- and higher-order structures from legal models into physical theories provides a novel approach for framing problems in physics, such as the process of quantum measurement. Specifically, quantum measurement is better explained as a fundamentally second-order physical process that alters the underlying first-order physical "microlaws" governing the evolution of the quantum system.

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