I’m not even going to pretend to understand, much less explain or condense the material in the article below, but here’s the excerpt that got my attention at first:
Compared to the unsolved mysteries of the universe, far less gets said about one of the most profound facts to have crystallized in physics over the past half-century: To an astonishing degree, nature is the way it is because it couldn’t be any different. “There’s just no freedom in the laws of physics that we have…”