The most fundamental property of our universe is that it is subject to natural law. In other words, it behaves consistently, at least as far as we can tell. Any coherent theory of everything will need to account for the following:
- All things physical appear to behave consistently, regardless of time, place and frame of reference of the observer.
- Some natural law applies to a widely diverse range of things, resulting in common behaviour. In particular, we observe that the energy of a closed system is conserved, whatever occurs within that system. The same applies for momentum and for angular momentum.
- Historically, phenomena that were not understood have subsequently been shown to be susceptible to explanation.
Note that when we think about it, we can hardly escape the thought that natural law is wierd. How do all electrons know how to behave as electrons? Is that some form of action at a distance? Or is it something somehow packaged in each electron?
Mainstream science takes this phenomenon for granted, without proffering an explanation for it. The nearest it comes to an explanation is the multiverse explanation, but that only accounts for the selection of a system of natural law, not for the existence of varying systems of natural law from which to select. This leaves us with an Occam score of 0400 relative to the Big Bang, because the conjecture that there is some way in which a whole lot of things get together and cause everything to conform to natural law represents a chaotic gap. Nor does it account for how natural law operates. So we are left with the QO explanation for natural law, This has an Occam score of 0000, relative to QO.