Some More of God’s Greatest Mistakes

Laws of Physics

When designing a new universe it is necessary first to come up with a scheme within which to order the distribution of things like matter, energy, time, magic, happiness, etc.  The laws for your new universe will need to be broad enough to allow your vision to be expressed, but firm enough so that the whole thing doesn’t come apart under the first slight strain or unforseen contingency.

Some technical minded Gods have a tendency to create a mess of ornate and complex laws of physics to govern the matter and energy within their universes.  They create numerous constants and special cases, they fill their matter up with particles of every size and flavour imagineable, in short they go a bit overboard from the very beginning.  This approach may appeal to some, but it also has some serious drawbacks.  We have found that it often leads intelligent societies to pick and niggle away at the physical laws, inevitably finding loopholes and inconsistencies within the structure of their particular reality.  Paradoxically, the more work a deity puts in to closing loopholes and planning every eventuality the more determined most races will become to poke into every little corner, looking for the a string they can pull to make the fabric of the universe unravel.

Thus we would like to remind you, gently but firmly, that some of the finest and most well ordered universes have been built on the dinner plate model, where everything sits together on a flat surface and a simple force pushes everything downward in the same direction.  The dinner plate may seem to modern deities a worn out option, it may seem dull and overused and tired, but it has the benefit of having stood the test of time in many versions of reality.  Thus it is that while we certainly encourage you to be creative when you go forth in designing basic laws for your new reality we think it is important to remember that simpler is often better in these situations.