It has been theorized (real or sci fi, I don't know) that all of the universal constants such as pi, the planck length, the speed of light, etc. were all determined in the first fraction of a second of the universe. Before this, either in the infinite time before the "real" universe in which we live was created, or in the first fraction of that fragmented second in which the universe was created, these numbers could have potentially been anything. But all of these numbers have relationships to each other. Matter is tied to energy, momentum and friction affect each other, space was defined with a particular warp and weave such that pi is a particular ratio, which defines all three-dimensional figures, etc. Ultimately, all equations can be tied into each other. But is there some constant that must have been decided first? Was there some ratio or natural law that, when it became real and imposed itself upon all the other laws of the universe, it forced them to conform to its particular system? Or were there several numbers that defined themselves completely independently and at the exact same time? If there was only one number that started the chain reaction of changing "possibility" into "actuality and definite-ness", then whatever number we started with, the universe could only be the way that it is, for we would have the same perspective on the universe, and the universe would act in the exact same way. If there were several numbers that defined themselves independently, could the universe be entirely different? I mean, obviously there are other "dimensions" or "frames" in which hitler could have won world war 2, or some other rubbish, but I mean different structures of physical law. Where the force that binds energy together would be stronger or weaker, or light would move in a different patterns, or there would be a different ratio of matter and anti-matter in the universe, of light matter and dark matter. Could it have been different and still worked? Or is this the only way it could work, and all those other possible universes tried and fizzled in the first second or failed to produce forces that yielded life? Or is there a God that knew that this was the only way that it would work and so determined this set of rules the first time through? Could God then be called the rule that determined all other rules, the function that determined everything in the universe? I made sense at first, I'm not sure I do here at the end, so I'll stop talking.