> observation enforces a certain kind of consistency in the laws of physics.
That sounds like a typical chicken-and-egg problem.
> how can it be that this ordering is so consistent?
One thing that I didn't explicitly state is that the universe only needs to seem ordered. You are making an assumption that isn't necessarily founded. 99.9% of the time we aren't checking on the ordered state of the universe. It is the exceedingly rare case that we measure with sufficient granularity to expect to see quantum effect, for example.
> I would expect a lot more miracles to happen
I totally understand this. You might expect a table upon which your keyboard rests to change color as we pass through a chaotic portion of some multi-verse. But that assumes order can't exist at the time-scales of universes.
Imagine it like a picture. The set of all possible pictures at 640x480 is massive but finite. The vast majority of images in that space are like white noise. But you've probably seen millions of images at that resolution that are totally coherent. You don't expect the middle block of some specific image to randomly be a different color. Same with a movie. The set of all sequences of 640x480 images at 30 fps with 1 minute duration is finite. It is full of total chaos. But when you watch a movie you don't expect chaos to ensue at any moment.
If you consider our entire universe like a single image from the set of all images or a movie from the set of all movies, it isn't surprising that it is entirely ordered from beginning to end. It just feels weird because the scale in both time and space is so large in the case of the universe. But given the scale of the entire set, such a large subset having internal consistency isn't totally unreasonable.
That sounds like a typical chicken-and-egg problem.
> how can it be that this ordering is so consistent?
One thing that I didn't explicitly state is that the universe only needs to seem ordered. You are making an assumption that isn't necessarily founded. 99.9% of the time we aren't checking on the ordered state of the universe. It is the exceedingly rare case that we measure with sufficient granularity to expect to see quantum effect, for example.
> I would expect a lot more miracles to happen
I totally understand this. You might expect a table upon which your keyboard rests to change color as we pass through a chaotic portion of some multi-verse. But that assumes order can't exist at the time-scales of universes.
Imagine it like a picture. The set of all possible pictures at 640x480 is massive but finite. The vast majority of images in that space are like white noise. But you've probably seen millions of images at that resolution that are totally coherent. You don't expect the middle block of some specific image to randomly be a different color. Same with a movie. The set of all sequences of 640x480 images at 30 fps with 1 minute duration is finite. It is full of total chaos. But when you watch a movie you don't expect chaos to ensue at any moment.
If you consider our entire universe like a single image from the set of all images or a movie from the set of all movies, it isn't surprising that it is entirely ordered from beginning to end. It just feels weird because the scale in both time and space is so large in the case of the universe. But given the scale of the entire set, such a large subset having internal consistency isn't totally unreasonable.