Science is often cast as the disenchanted cosmos, the objective mirror of reality. Yet physics, cosmology, and mathematics are themselves symbolic architectures, producing worlds through construal rather than discovering a pre-existing order.
Equations, models, and laws are tools for stabilising relational patterns. Particles, fields, and forces are not inert substances waiting to be found; they are elements of a constructed symbolic weave that makes complex phenomena intelligible. Observations, experiments, and simulations are enactments of meaning, shaping what becomes actual and how collectives interpret the cosmos.
Scientific cosmology constrains possibility like myth or theology, but in a formal, reproducible, and intersubjective register. Constants, symmetries, and laws are not eternal decrees; they are relational stabilisations that guide actualisation. The universe as a “mechanism” or “system” is a collective construct: a cosmos made legible through symbolic practices.
To study the scientific cosmos is to see the subtle continuity between myth, theology, and science: all are modes of worlding, each with different symbolic forms, registers, and scales, yet all weaving the same relational fabric of possibility.
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