Physics Without Divinity: 11 Contextual Invariance — Constants without Divinity

From Immutable Attributes to Emergent Regularities

Universal constants often read like secularised divine attributes: fixed, eternal, perfectly tuned. Their stability suggests a metaphysical safeguard, a cosmos guaranteed against variation.

Relationally, constants are invariances within context. They describe the consistent outcome of patterns in relational actualisation, not metaphysical absolutes. Gravity, the speed of light, and Planck’s constant are measures of relational stability, contingent on the framework of interaction, not cosmic decree.

Constants persist because processes maintain alignment, not because they are inscribed by divine will. Physics liberated from theology sees invariance as emergent, not decreed.